Quotes about truth

The same thing happens to every President. People tell a chief executive what they think he wants to hear. Rosy economic reports, high popularity figures, promising international changes, you name it. There’s a competition to be the first with good news. Anyone who tells bad news tends to get weeded out—even if all the real news is bad.

But mere plausibility did not make the statement true.

“It sounds reasonable to me.”

“Reasonable, but not true. Big difference.”

You tell the truth and you depict it in detail.

Truth is the first casualty in war, but communications is the second.

“I used to believe a lot of things. That doesn’t make them true,” Durzo said.

I have seen the truth, Dostoevski said. It is not as though I had invented it with my mind. I have seen it, seen it, and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.... In one day, one hour, everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love.

"Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last."

Saying it’s a sign from God is an interpretation, not a fact.

The simple truth emerges like a bubble of swamp gas and just as foul.

Withholding the truth is lying.

Since being part of a couple he’d learned relationships didn’t need truth to make them work, they just needed one of them to possess a heart large enough to beat for both of them.