Quotes on “truth”

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

I never lie, I said offhand. At least not to those I don't love.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.