Quotes About Truth

She just looked at me, and I wondered what on earth it was about her that made me be so honest. Like she was sick with truth, and really contagious.

Why would I tell you anything but the truth? -Ethan For safety's sake we learn to be less honest at the beginnings of things, not more. But Ethan was different. With him and me, it was always about the truth. Why would I tell you anything but? It was the closest thing to I love you a boy had ever said to me. Maybe it meant even more.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

But I knew what it said. That I could be imperfect, but only so much. Human, but only within limits. And honest, to her or to myself, never.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with befire earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.

Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.

All paradises fail. —Constance Waverly

We like stories that are false and seem true (realist novels), that are true and seem false (true crime), that are false and seem false (dragons and superheroes), or that are true and seem true, but it's harder to agree on what that is.

How much of what they loved in her was real, and how much was fashioned from what they envisioned her to be?

I guess people can be wrong and right at the same time.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Not everything needs to be a powerful statement about character or society or whatever. Sometimes, things are the way they are and nothing more.

If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

If truth was a crayon and I had to name it, I would call it dinosaur skin.

Sometimes people lie because the truth is too hard to admit.

Assumptions are often wrong.

The things you want her to let you in on might be things you're happier not knowing.

Be truthful, gentle and fearless.

Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it.

But if the guru and s?dhus behave hypocritically, then their teaching cannot be accepted as a transparent via medium, and the whole epistemological system of receiving the truth breaks down.

This is the world as it is. This is where you start.