truth on Facts

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

We are a couple of decades past the vastly popular initial run of the TV show The X-Files, but its themes continue to resonate. In the show, two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigate par...

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

Prayer of Adoration Lord, our Lord – How excellent is your name in all the earth. Because of who you are – we praise You. Because of what you’ve done – we thank You. You are a Father to the fathe...

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Alltruths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.