“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”
Truth is simple in theory and messy in practice. These quotes tackle honesty, deception, self-awareness, and the uncomfortable reality that the truths most worth hearing are usually the ones you least want to hear.
“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”
“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”
“The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.”
“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.”
“The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”
“Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.”
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
“Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.”
“You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
“Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”