Quotes About Truth

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts divert attention from the secret influences around the recorded events.

A menudo es mejor observar lo que hace la gente e ignorar lo que dice. Las discordancias entre el comportamiento y las palabras son extremadamente reveladoras. La acción habla por sí misma.

Duboko u ljudskoj podsvijesti postoji nezasitna potreba za logi?no osmišljenim svijetom. Ali pravi svijet je uvijek jedan korak s druge strane logike.

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. —FROM "MANUAL OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death." Understanding this, you will be filled with joy.

Qué es consistente? La consistencia no es un aspecto necesario del universo.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments.

Very well. Siaynoq means giving honor to one who speaks with sincerity. It signifies the remembrance of things which are spoken with sincerity.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB

There remained facts which no curse or prayer or litany could wash from existence. Flight would not leave such facts behind, they could not be ignored.

He said, 'I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Out here, we carry no paper for contracts. We make no evening promises to be broken at dawn. When a man says a thing, that's the contract.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. —THE ZENSUNNI WHIP

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Memoria nu recreeaz? niciodat? realitatea. Memoria doar reconstituie. ?i orice reconstituire modific? originalul, devenind ea îns??i un cadru de referin?? extern, în mod inevitabil deficitar.

I felt that I could remember a past which had never been

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Când crezi în anumite cuvinte, crezi în argumentele lor ascunse. Când crezi c? un lucru este corect sau greÈ™it, adev?rat sau fals, crezi în ipotezele conÈ›inute în cuvintele care exprim? argumentele. Asemenea ipoteze sunt deseori pline de lacune, îns? ele au preÈ›ioasa calitate de a fi conving?toare.

truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear," Jessica said, her voice sweet. "I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Ignoring that which is false is also a knowing. Thus—learning. To learn is to grow and to grow is to live. You may practice forgetting and thus learn.

En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.