Quotes About Truth

Rilke wrote: "I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

shared a belief that we were spiritual beings having human experiences, not vice versa, and that spirit, love, and truth were actual reality

I'd given talks for years about how when it comes to grieving, the culture lies--you really do not get over the biggest losses, you don't pass through grief in any organized way, and it takes years and infinitely more tears than people want to allot you. Yet the gift of grief is incalculable, in giving you back to yourself.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see that bleak, unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words -- not just any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

We think that if our values aren't the correct ones, we would have other ones, which would then be the correct ones.

Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind

A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

So often lately he'd come to realize that things were not as they seemed. There were hidden facets to everything. You'd think you had what you wanted in your grasp and, when you looked closely, it wasn't what it had seemed to be from a distance.

Whales might not lie, but like anybody else, Sean suspected they probably wanted to put the best spin they could on an error in judgment when called to account for their actions.

La experiencia real es el conocimiento

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

If the truth is not in the face, then where is it? In the hands! In the hands.

There's a precise moment when we reject contradiction. This moment of choice is the lie we will live by. What is dearest to us is often dearer to us than truth.

Plotinus was preaching the dangers of multiplicity of the world back in the third century.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

There were parts of Monk she admired greatly: his courage; his strength of will; his intelligence; his loyalty to his beliefs; his passion for justice; his ability to face almost any kind of truth, no matter how dreadful; and the fact that he was never, ever, a hypocrite.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Page 134 Florence Nightengale is speaking to William Monk Of course. If you know the truth, it takes a gentler and perhaps a wiser woman than Purdence Barrymore not to speak it aloud. She did not understand the arts of diplomacy. I fear that perhaps I do not either. The sick cannot wait for flattery and coercion to do their work.

The success of the lie depends a great deal upon how much the hearer wishes to believe it," she replied.

You cannot tell people to take into account what they do not wish to know.

Remember, my dear, you are dealing with the world as it is, not as you believe, maybe rightly, that it ought to be.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

enough to get someone to tell him the