“Since learning the truth, his inner compass had spun off course, swinging wildly, like a needle around a magnet or one of… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
“I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
It's just the control that they hold over me, my weakness you know the deal. So much could be said over the… — Zulu Copy Share Image
“Do not think that fairness to all sides means balancing yourself evenly between positions; truth is not handed out in equal portions… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Lying is not only saying what isn't true, It is also, in fact especially, saying more thsn is true, and, in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s not in the history books because if people knew the truth they wouldn’t be able to go about their day to… — M.D. Bowden Copy Share Image
“And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person… — Curtis Sittenfield Copy Share Image
“In truth, however, nothing is inevitable and very little is new. And tech is no more the root of the problem than… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was… — Susan Smith Copy Share Image
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How did you come to be a Christian? I sought the Lord. But how did you come to seek the Lord? The… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don’t listen to their actions. But if… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude,… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Concerns about democracy’s future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if “there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for… — A.C. Ping Copy Share Image
“Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for… — Faith Hunter Copy Share Image
Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The transcendental critique reveals the deep roots of sin in the heart of man, and it demands the purity of biblical truth… — William D. Dennison Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“In our foreign policy as in our own national life we need less fanfare, less stagecraft and circumventing. We need to talk… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image