All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“A strange thing, words. Once they’re said, it’s hard to imagine they’re untrue.”

“Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.”

“Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.”

“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

“the worst thing about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”

“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.”

“I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right. ”

“Decide what your truth is. Then live it.”

“But what do you say if you’re asked a direct question and you can’t tell the truth and you can’t tell a lie?’ ‘You say “how very interesting” and change the subject.”

“I am not cruel —only truthful.”

“We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win”

“I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.”

“I’m planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That’s hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”

“Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.”

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”