Quotes on “truth”

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition