Quotes About Truth

People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one are dangerous. Such conviction is the essence not only of dogmatism, but of its more destructive cousin, fanaticism. It blocks off the user from learning new truth, and it is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. The person then has to double his or her protests in order to quiet not only the opposition but his or her own unconscious doubts as well.

The human being has reason. This enables him to conceive of truth- yet what he says or writes in learned books is always but a thrust in the direction of truth, it ever falls short of truth itself.

Tik priart?jus ketvirt? dešimt?, po ilg? klajoni? tarp šedevr? man atsiv?r? tiesa ir supratau, kad paskutinio kamuoliuko išvis n?ra.

Khi ??ng Ä'i?u là thá»±c ch?t và tr?n v?n, không màu mè, thì ch? có im l?ng là bi?u lá»™ ???c nó ra.

I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.

Besides, there's nothing like the truth to make a convincing lie.

The difference between the English and the rest of mankind is that the English have long known the truth about themselves — which makes them always able to evade it discreetly, to slip round it.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase. C'est fait pour ça.

Si dice che la cosa più tremenda del nazismo sia il suo lato disumano. Sì. Ma ci si deve arrendere all'evidenza: questo lato disumano fa parte dell'umano. Fintantoché non si riconoscerà che la disumanità è cosa umana, si resterà in una pietosa bugia.»

E se il nazismo non fosse una mostruosità disumana? Se fosse 'umano'? Se fosse una confessione, una verità nascosta, rimossa, camuffata, negata, acquattata in fondo a noi stessi, ma che finisce sempre per tornar fuori?

It wasn't true, the evidence was faked, but the odd thing is that, whether it s true or not, the consequences are the same: one large group of human beings or another turned out to be triple-distilled sons-of-bitches, which proves that we all have it in us. Whether the Communists staged a diabolical lie or the Americans sowed plague in China, the one thing that matters is that, as a man, you're in the gutter, Colonel Babcock.

And don't look at me like that. I don't need your damned pity. It's true that I've known men, too many of them, but one gets used to it. And you can't judge men by what they do when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks they dress up — they even put on uniforms, flags and decorations.

Kažkur greta kažin kokia garbinga ranka, matyt, prilaik? svarstykles, ir galutinis matas negal?jo b?ti neteisingas, dievai nežaidžia sužym?tais kauliukais iš motin? širdži?.

Cookie avait fait quelque chose de tout à fait compréhensible, mais cela ne pouvait pas se communiquer. On ne peut pas mettre ça en mots. Les mots mentent comme ils respirent.

Non c'è bisogno di motivi per aver paura, Momò". Questa non me la sono mai dimenticata, perché è la cosa più vera che ho mai sentito dire.

Le plus mauvais film américain est toujours véridique, il rend toujours fidèlement compte des États-Unis. Cela

Wszystko w tym opowiadaniu jest prawdÄ… - chyba tylko prócz dialogów: nie mam takiej nadludzkiej pamiÄ™ci. DochodzÄ™ zresztÄ… powoli do przekonania, ?e w ogóle nic nadludzkiego we mnie nie ma. Bardzo mnie to dziwi, ale trudno.

Maybe the Nazis told the truth about us. Maybe the Nazis were the truth. We shouldn't forget the truth. The rest, just beautiful tiful lies about ourselves. Perhaps do — to sing another beautiful lie.

Let's say that it's a good idea to see these things as they are, in order to gain some necessary detachment... — He gave a sad little smile. — I know, I know - the hardest peace treaties are the ones one has to conclude with oneself.

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

He thought of all that the newspapers were printing about him. Each man attributed to him his own hopes, his own motives and rancors, and his own secret misanthropy: it was in vain that he stated his own aims clearly; there was nothing he could do about it. And yet the truth was clear; it could hardly be clearer. He loved all those free roots that gave their beauty to the earth and to man's life on it. He loved nature, and he had always done his best to defend it.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.

Let us be bold and proclaim the truth to the elders of these young men, to their moral guides, to their religious and secular leaders, to the Churches, the great thinkers, the leaders of socialism; these living riches, these treasures of heroism you held in your hands; for what are you squandering them? What ideal have you held up to the devotion of these youths so eager to sacrifice themselves? Their mutual slaughter!

Wrong or right, he would never again for anything in the world have recourse to a priest. He admitted that these men were his superiors in intelligence or by reason of their sacred calling; but in argument there is neither superiority, nor inferiority, nor title, nor age, nor name; nothing is of worth but truth, before which all men are equal.