Will Rogers Quotes

You can't handle the truth!

I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.