truth evasion Quotes

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

… facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Trump's inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows.