Quotes about truth

A man who gets angry at the truth will have a hard time in life, don’t you think?

That was true, but, like a lot of true things, didn’t tell the whole story or even most of it.

Potter knew perfectly well that it was true. He also knew that what was true and what made good propaganda often had not even a nodding acquaintance with each other.

“It’s never too early for the truth,” Summers said, which proved he’d never been a lawyer.

“Every word you say is true,” O’Doull answered. “Every single word. But saying it, no matter how true it is, doesn't make anybody on either side change his mind.”

It was an eminently sensible question. Moss didn't want good sense, though. He wanted to be told what he wanted to hear. That he was thinking like a three-year-old was a telling measure of how tired he was, but he was too tired to realize it.

That held enough truth to be provocative, not enough to be useful.

A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.

“What’s obvious,” Morrell observed, “isn’t always true.”

The War Department had never forgiven Jake for being right.

Being sure wasn’t the same thing as being right.

“Putting the best face on things doesn’t make them right,” Flora said with a stern rectitude of a temperance crusader smashing a bottle of whiskey against a saloon wall.