Quotes About Distorting The Truth

#1. But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

Gerald Vann

#3. Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

Giordano Bruno

#4. You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Jean Rhys

#5. The situation as well as them and had shifted her loyalties to the most likely survivors with the business-like efficiency of a bank teller making change.

Anonymous

#6. I have seen hate born of fear, hate speaking in the name of God and truth, hate holding up a distorting mirror to fellow human beings.

Bill Moyers

#7. I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

Marlon Brando

#8. If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. Have you ever wondered why you did not rapture and go to heaven the day you became a Christian? It is because God has work for you to do here on earth! Having gone to heaven, Jesus expects you to be his body on earth. You are his hands, his feet, his voice.

Pedro Okoro

#11. Instead, she rose a little onto her toes and they kissed again.

Scott Westerfeld