Quotes About Truth

Third, the decision to withhold the truth should never be based on personal needs, such as a need for power, a need to be liked or a need to protect one's map from challenge.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

La vida es difícil. Esta es una gran verdad, una de las más grandes.[1] Es una gran verdad porque, una vez que la comprendemos realmente, la trascendemos. Cuando nos damos cuenta de que la vida es difícil —en el momento en que lo hemos comprendido y aceptado verdaderamente—, ya no resulta difícil, porque una vez que se acepta esta verdad, la dificultad de la vida ya no importa.

There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult.

What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing.

But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid.

Sometimes the things you fantasize about aren't what you end up really wanting

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

We see what we want to see when we look at someone. Like a diamond before it has been cut. We can guess at its brilliance but can't see the faults until the stone has been cut and polished. Only then can we glimpse inside and see the occlusions and the clarity. 

We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.

Não confunda o romance com a vida, ou viverá desgraçada.

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.

Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas.

Já é muito concertar farrapos da realidade.

notice that frankness is the first virtue of a deceased man.

He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.

Há muitos modos de afirmar; há só um de negar tudo.

não direi ótimo, mas nem tudo é ótimo neste mundo.

em tempo de guerra, mentira como terra.

Quantas intenções viciosas há assim que embarcam, a meio caminho, numa frase inocente e pura! Chega a fazer suspeitar que a mentira é, muita vez, tão involuntária como a transpiração.

Se, como penso, Capitu não disse a verdade, força é reconhecer que não podia dizê-la, e a mentira é dessas criadas que se dão pressa em responder às visitas que a senhora saiu, quando a senhora não quer falar a ninguém. Há nessa cumplicidade um gosto particular; o pecado em comum iguala por instantes a condição das pessoas, não contando o prazer que dá a cara das visitas enganadas, e as costas com que elas descem...

Nada tenho que ver com a ciência; mas, se tantos homens em quem supomos são reclusos por dementes, quem nos afirma que o alienado não é o alienista?