Quotes About Truth

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

It is the artist who is truthful, while the photographer is mendacious; for, in reality, time never stops cold.

For him life is an endless joy, a perpetual delight, a mad intoxication. Not all seems good to him, for suffering, which must often come to those he loves and to himself, cruelly contradicts his optimism. But all is beautiful to him because he walks forever in the light of spiritual truth.

He salutes ingratitude as an experience which shall enrich his soul. His ecstasy is terrifying at times, but it is still happiness, because it is the continual adoration of truth.

When he sees beings everywhere destroying each other; when he sees all youth fading, all strength failing, all genius dying, when he is face to face with the will which decreed these tragic laws, more than ever he rejoices in his knowledge, and, seized anew by the passion for truth, he is happy.

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

Só se questiona quem procura por si mesmo, quem quer sair da superfície do planeta mente para entrar em suas camadas mais profundas. Quem não se questiona não duvida das próprias verdades, não vasculha os fundamentos das emoções e dos pensamentos que tem, vai sempre ser superficial, ainda que seja academicamente um intelectual. E quanto mais me questionava, mais anotava e mais desenvolvia novos conhecimentos.

A cuántos sofismas acudes diariamente para ocultarte que eres un cobarde? Yo soy un cobarde.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

The words of power, of authority, words above words, will be transformed into clever, lying words. Words below words.

Words are dirty by nature.

Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente... -¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui. -Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de <>, aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios

Quiero decir que me violaron y me arrojaron bajo un puente... -¡Parece de novela! -suspiró Sui. -Sí, muchacha. Todo lo que es verdadero parece de "novela", aun cuando la novela sólo relata hechos ficticios

The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

There's need to understand the spirit that dwells in you than listening to the voice that misleads your decision.