Quotes About Truth

Most of us do not have a corpus of Scripture in our minds, a comprehensive understanding of the Bible and its truths that can counteract the voices of culture.

Ya no soñaba despierto. Había demasiada realidad alrededor.

A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell.

Denial is always a prison.

There is always a price to pay when one tinkers with the truth.

How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.

Learn to talk honestly, truthfully, logically, ethically, and boldly.

When a human in happy time, he/she doesn't understand the reality! He/she doesn't realize it until he/she is touched by sadness, pain, poverty, refusal, betrayal, hate, abuse and so many things. Until then he/she doesn't know what the reality is. Cause the reality is very harsh and very hard to accept.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Koliko ?e biti potrebno revolucija, koliko ratova da bismo se vratili onoj izuzetno reakcionarnoj istini da je 'strogost' prvi uslov svake hijerarhije, i da je stega ustvari kalup oblika.

Gala Gradiva - 'tista, ki hodi spredaj, 'brezmadežna intuicija' - je imela spet prav. Danes lahko re?em, da izmed vseh mojih prepri?anj le dveh ne zmorem razložiti s svojo voljo do mo?i: eno je znova najdena vera leta 1949, drugo pa, da bo imela Gala glede moje prihodnosti vedno prav.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

When the mind stops striving, the world's not a problem. A constant heart won't waver from the truth.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

Until you can prove otherwise, always assume you're in reality.