Quotes About Truth

There was too much talk and most of it unnecessary and most of it lying. Alone on the desert he felt he could reach to something, something he could never get to anywhere else, something that belonged to the beginning and made everything else that happened in between of no importance.

For me, trust is the first casualty of secrecy… integrity is probably the next.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Some of the best truths for which to live were realized in the throes of death.

La verdad es que el Willy y yo estuvimos agarrando cura, que si prometíamos ser fieles al presidente, gritaba aquel bato, Simón, respondíamos nosotros, pero si nos pasa a sus hijas.

You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else.

But when you begin with bullshit the conclusion you reach is still bullshit.

Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.' 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.

Life is so much easier if we get these little truths out of the way, don't you think?

My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.

I can't imagine what you write about," North said. "Certainly not about my personal life. I attempted a diary once, and had to fill it with lies in order to keep myself interested

Often we mistake knowledge for truth and forget that the sun shines on truth from different directions and casts a different shadow each time. When we look only at high noon, we miss a lot. If we mistake the shadow for truth itself, we delude ourselves. Our understanding must shine from ever-new directions.

Life has lots of genuine-sounding simulated answers waiting to be snatched up by gullible takers.

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

If we allow ourselves to become authorities, we tend to lock ourselves into the corner we label "right," and forget that every corner has its own share of rightness.

To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between.

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

Vuoi sapere una importante Verità Eterna, tu diavolessa, tigre? Impara: IL SACRIFICIO È LA SOLA, VERA PERVERSIONE UMANA.

Ser simple agota.

La mentira no es siempre necesaria, pero es algo a lo que te acostumbras y no puedes parar