Quotes About Truth

it had never occurred to him before now that people could see reality in completely different ways.

She wondered if if there was anyone out there, really, or if David was just some story the Uglies made up to scare each other.

A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good so that they become entrenched in their sinful state betrays the gospel's call…A preaching that awakens, a preaching that enlightens—as when a light turned on awakens and of course annoys a sleeper—that is the preaching of Christ, calling Wake up! Be converted!" —January 22, 1978

Your word is pardon and gentleness for the penitent, Your word is holy instruction, eternal teaching; It is light to brighten, advice to hearten; It is voice of help, fire that burns, Way, truth, sublime splendor, Life—eternity." —Poem written in the minor seminary

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

This is the war too, and you have to look straight at it, I told myself. You have to look straight at all of it or you have no business being here at all.

scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life.

La realtà è sempre impresentabile; e l'arte esiste anche per questo scopo specifico, di renderla migliore e degna di essere raccontata.

Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays.

Al igual que el resto del mundo, nací desnuda.

Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.

Only with the idea (which has become rare today) that there is a revealed truth that is above all experience, can this occult realm be enlightened, its true nature recognized and a discernment made between this lower realm and the higher realm of heaven.

Nos conformamos con estar convencidos de que el saber existe y de que el Otro lo posee, y en consecuencia no queremos saber nada de nada: tan sólo queremos, por lo general, ser amados por el saber y por el Otro que supuestamente lo posee.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong.

4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Reality is the best reassurance of all.

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them. If you had this skill, what an asset you would be to any organization.

Expertise gives you enough insight to reinvent what everyone else assumes is the truth. Sure, it's possible to randomly challenge the conventions of your field and luckily find a breakthrough. It's far more likely, though, that you will design a great Web site or direct a powerful movie or lead a breakthrough product development if you understand the status quo better than anyone else. Beginner's luck is dramatically overrated. Emotional