Quotes About Truth

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

Bahram smiled to himself as he listened: the arguments were marvellously simple yet irrefutable. Really, there was no language like English for turning lies into legalisms.

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now?

But if it were true that his life had somehow been molded by acts of power of which he was unaware—then it would follow that he had never acted of his own volition; never had a moment of true self-consciousness. Everything he had ever assumed about himself was a lie, an illusion. And if this were so, how was he to find himself now? CHAPTER 37 When

Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what's inside can never be told.

all the things we think are important really aren't, and he had no time to think about the things that really are. His whole life was going by and he had never contemplated the big, simple truths: loneliness and longing, desire and death.

Feiten zijn volgens mij vaak de ergste vijanden van de waarheid.

lo que ocurre ahora es que todo el mundo en este país exclama El rey está desnudo y quizás por eso el niño deba encontrar un grito nuevo

Cuando crezcas te darás cuenta de que casi todo lo que se oye por la noche puede interpretarse de diversas formas. Y de hecho, no sólo por la noche y no sólo lo que se oye: también lo que se ve, e incluso lo que se ve a plena luz del día, puede casi siempre entenderse de muchas formas.

The grown-ups who still remembered usually chose to stay silent. To deny. To pretend they'd forgotten

Really," "really and truly," those code words which barely conceal a lie.)

Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

It is just possible I will say I stayed the night. And who is there that can say that I did not?

Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perché è vero: niente è mai grave quanto potrebbe essere.

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming , she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.