Quotes About Truth

I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.

I guess we don't know what's real or unreal,' she had said without meaning to. 'You stare at anything long enough and suddenly it looks monstrous.

Poetry is truth... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute.

But Marchent, most journalists can't be trusted. You do know that, don't you?

The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

All my struggles, my triumphs, my losses, were being eclipsed by what was being revealed now. Had ever ennui and despair been banished by such revelations, such precious gifts of truth?

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

And not having had any true gods of my own, I speak of all gods as if they were poetry.

Telling people-did it ever make things better?

She was no devout Christian, but all the religions of the world held a certain sway over her, and within her was a belief that collectively each faith brushed more sand from a great tablet of truth.

I see that you are capable of secrecy but quite incapable of a lie.

And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

He wanted the truth and knew he could not get it by hostile means.

Felix?" "I don't know, Dad. I can't get his words out of my head! I've never been able to get the negative voices of my life out of my head. I've struggled all my life to find my own truth and I find myself smothered by other people's words. It's as though they're always shouting at me, bullying me, shaking their fists, and half the time I can't find what I think.

But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history—is lies.

Whether you and Marius made up some of what was written in your books I don't know. You and comrades, the Coven of the Articulate, as you are now called, may well have a penchant for telling lies.

The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.

The will of a single god can be felt by all but those who are lost in delusion.

Sometimes we are blinded by the translation we want to be true, and not the one that is correct.

He vivido muchas mentiras porque no soporto la debilidad que engendra la ira y no puedo aceptar la irracionalidad del amor.

So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." "An absence of need for illusions," he said.

You know what a liar I am, don't you?" I asked her. "You know how wicked I have been. And you play my game with me, don't you, my Sovereign?

It's a lie that I hold him high in my affections. My life is full of such lies.

I'm now privy to a great truth. Our souls, the souls we believe to be part and parcel of our bodies, are immortal, and those souls follow their own path. I possess a soul that once belonged to another, and after I die, that soul will travel on. Most human beings live and die without ever having such a great truth revealed to them. But it has been revealed to me.