Quotes About Truth

Do you think there are answers to everything here? Is that true in the place you come from?

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

All time exists. That is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind us?

You said you loved truth. Now I see why — it is truth that binds men.

All time exists. That is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind us? In sleep the mind is encircled by its time, which is why we so often hear the voices of the dead there, and receive intelligence of things to come.

what a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale.

Flechas tengo para el corazón del sabio, Guiadas por la naturaleza infalible hasta el blanco, Pero cuando tiendo mi arco ante la multitud de la llanura, Los ignorantes sólo oyen al viento y a él todo lo atribuyen".

We call for night to hide our acts, But Night, a god, gives God the facts.

We are as solid as most truly false things are--a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true...

into my pocket. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he remembers it, However rudely spoken or unfit, Or else the tale he tells will be untrue, The things invented and the phrases new.

Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!

Los timadores, al final, acaban siendo ellos mismos timados.

Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.

Just so, lo, thus does it fare with us. For he who seems the wisest, by Jesus, is the greatest fool, when it comes to the proof. And he who seems the most honest is a thief. That shall you come to know, ere that I leave you, when I have made an end of my tale.

The greatest Scholars are not the wisest men,' as once unto the wolf thus spoke the mare. Of all their artifice, I account not a whit.

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.

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Now malice is of two kinds; that is to say, hardness of heart in wickedness, or else the flesh of a man is so blind that he does not see that he is in Sin, or he cares not that he is in Sin, which is the hardness of the Devil. The other kind of malice is when a man wars against truth, when he knows that it is the truth.

A wys wyf, if that she kan hir good, Shal beren him on hond the cow is wood.

Upon my word, I tell you faithfully Through life and after death you are my queen; For with my death the whole truth shall be seen. Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes me who was once serene; Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.

The poets are wrong when they describe the grave as cold.

Beauty conveys truth, but not the way we thought. Aesthetic significance does not deliver truth about the human condition in general: it delivers truth about the condition of a particular human, the artist.

Ist das Nein am Ja oder das Ja am Nein schuld?