truth

"This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back, under fire, and the general wanted me to pin the Silver Star on him. I got up there- this is the God's honest truth, my word as a Biden…"

"If there was more true abiding in Christ, there would be less selfish abiding at home."

"His speech is hesitant because he is used to crossing out his words. It is true that after several redrafts, his style may be crystal clear. But when he takes the floor, he no longer has any means at …"

"A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible."

"I mean, it isn't as though the Saab badge stands for anything particularly dramatic. This fighter jet thing seems a bit weak somehow, and anyway it wasn't that long ago when Saab were selling their ca…"

"Use yer heads! A barnyard goose tastes better 'an a wild one cause it don't use its muscles. The same oughta hold true for a giant's brains!"—Bruenor Battlehammer, explaining his new recipe in respons…"

"When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all."

"It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it..."

"With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist."

"Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!"

"The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditation "rests" in swiftness."

"In reality the cycles we have the occasion to observe are generally not damped. How can the maintenance of the swings be explained? Have theses dynamic laws deduced from theory and showing damped osci…"

"The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may."

"For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves."

"The nature of man is such that he tends to believe what he wants to believe. Whether it is true or not usually provides only a brief hesitation. Men believe on the basis of their likes and dislikes. U…"

". . . there is only one authority. . . that is the authority which truth itself possesses when it is perceived to be true by the individual concerned. . . the alternative procedure, the delegation to …"

"Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional."

"I always lie . . . and I'm always right."

"We owe it to everybody in our party to be honest about where we stand."

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!"