Quotes About Truth

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some new decision, offering each bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, And cries reproachful: "Was it then my praise, And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality. It takes a certain commitment to say something is. Inserting "like" gives you a bit more running room.

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Mark Twain's memory had become capricious and his vivid imagination did not always supply his story with details of crystal accuracy.

For Twain, the notion that great writing had to be drawn from life–rather than from what an author heard, read, or simply imagined–was an article of faith, at the heart of his conception of how serious writers worked.

Only the actions of the justSmell sweet and blossom in their dust.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing. Many a person can see a thing and believe a thing and know just as little about it as the person who does neither.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.

I know you think you know this guy, but I'm telling you now. Don't mess with him. If you're anything other than straight with Jensen, this isn't going to work.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,But they are not the Life for which they stand.

You can fool too many people, too much of the time.