Quotes About Truth

Não, insistiu o Tenente Porfírio. Repare que para cada provérbio afirmando uma coisa, há outro provérbio afirmando a coisa contrária. Os provérbios mentem.

Mas vá lá; ou não se há de contar nada, ou se há de dizer tudo.

Greeks, sub-Greeks, anti-Greeks, the whole long series of men bent over the well, to see the truth come out, which was not there.

A verdade é que minha mãe era cândida como a primeira aurora, anterior ao primeiro pecado.

O anseio de escutar a verdade complicava-se em mim com o temor de a saber. Era a primeira vez que a morte me aparecia assim perto, me envolvia, me encarava com os olhos furados e escuros.

Il n'est point d'autre moyen de se garder de la flatterie que de donner à entendre aux gens qu'ils ne t'offensent pas à te dire le vrai; mais quand chacun peut te dire le vrai, on cesse de te respecter.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Hitler lied shamelessly about himself and about his enemies. He convinced millions of men and women that he cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have willingly sacrificed them all. His murderous ambition, avowed racism, and utter immorality were given the thinnest mask, and yet millions of Germans were drawn to Hitler precisely because he seemed authentic. They screamed, "Sieg Heil" with happiness in their hearts, because they thought they were creating a better world.

Falsehood flies," observed Jonathan Swift, "and the truth comes limping after it.

I take the Bible too seriously to take it all literally.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.