Quotes About Truth

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Bit looks up at me with tears in her eyes. "Please don't hate me." "Why would I hate you?" I ask, frowning with confusion. "Because I've been lying to you," Bit says, and her already tortured expression darkens even more. "About

Dr. Pierce stands, and his expression darkens. "Yes, Finn. I think it's time that you learned the truth . . . about everything.

We ask not "Which religion alone is true?" but "What end is most ultimate, even if many are real?" and "Which life will I hope to realize?

Truth conquers, Thea." His wolf eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And this is our truth.

I'm just starting to realize I don't know you at all." "Yes, you do," came his hoarse response. "You just hate that I'm not what you need me to be.

It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true,...

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance. As Mother says, it isn't what you don't know that will kill you, it's what you think you know that just isn't so.

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Truth is a ladder of many rungs, and that from each we gain a new perspective??

Sure it is that They have many faces. All the shapes the Divine shows us are true; and none are all the Truth.

Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.

It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Veritas filia temporis

Não olheis de onde vem a verdade.

Y si el oráculo ha nombrado a Sócrates, sin duda se ha valido de mí nombre como un ejemplo, y como si dijese a todos los hombres: «El más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada».

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

He catches the thieves that lie in the hearts of their pure and respectable wives. And he compares them to the purity in the heart of a whore in a brothel.

They both were liars. Both led lives camouflaged in artifice. But Saugandhi was happy. Someone who cannot afford real gold will gladly settle for artificial jewelry.

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.