Truth Quotes
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I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
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Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
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We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
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This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?
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The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.
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The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
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It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
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'What is truth?' is a fundamental question. But what is it compared to 'How to endure life?' And even this one pales beside the next: 'How to endure oneself?' - That is the crucial question in which no one is in a position to give us an answer.
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The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.
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Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.
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Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
