Quotes About Truth

And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.