Quotes About Truth

Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.

That's not a good enough answer." "I know that better than anyone. But it is the answer regardless of whether or not you think it's good enough. That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. 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.

Stop to consider why your judgement might be wrong.

Run, Bruce! Run from the truth! Run like you always have…but when you feel that prickling on the back of your neck, know that I'm coming for you! Reaching you from the other side of your reflection!

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Marta Stern to her father Sandy:] "Science is where the truth is in our world," she said that night in the office. "What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

All that glitters is not hovery.

Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

When glance turns To a sky-blue clear day, When the purplr-red sun Sinks low at sirocco, Here nature bestows glory, Joy, sound to eye and heart, And we find in color lore, The universal truth. - - - GER: Wenn der Blick an heitern Tagen Sich zur Himmelsbläue lenkt, Beim Sirok der Sonnenwagen Purpurrot sich niedersenkt, Da gebt der Natur die Ehre, Froh, an Aug und Herz gesund, Und erkennt der Farbenlehre Allgemeinen, ewigen Grund. Zahme Xenien VI.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial.

Can that be a delusion which makes us happy?

Und ich habe wieder bei diesem kleinen Geschäft gefunden, daß Mißverständnisse und Trägheit vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt machen als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiß seltener.

I, for my share, cannot understand," continued she, "how men have made themselves believe that God speaks to us through books and histories. The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names.

Im Deutschen lügt man, wenn man höflich ist.

It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.

The eye is the worst way to judge.