Fear of Truth Quotes

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain. So once in Israel love came to us incarnate, stood in the doorway between two worlds, and we were all afraid.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

We are all afraid of the truth.

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

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

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

In the 13 months I've been in the Senate, it has become apparent to me the single thing that Republican politicians hate and fear the most, and that is when they're forced to tell the truth. It makes their heads explode.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it.