Quotes About Truth

A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH*** I do not carry a sickle or a scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

Sería bonito decir que después de este pequeño avance, ni Liesel ni Max volvieron a tener pesadillas. Sería bonito, pero mentira.

Un pequeño detalle Morirás.

Nothing squandered, nothing cloaked.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.

The wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

An expert is a man who doesn't make the slightest error on the road to the Grand Illusion.

Y él lo había creído, porque entonces era verdad, era verdad hasta que se había ido acercando la hora de la verdad

It's easier to find out who someone isn't than who they are

And thus I learned that at Harvard, while knowing a great deal is the norm and knowing everything is the goal, appearing to know everything is an acceptable substitute. I pondered this great truth during the two-hour seminar. I was so buoyed up by it that I didn't pay enough attention to snorkeling up little bits of food in order to keep my nausea under control. I sailed right on into my next class, another seminar, confident that I could get through it without losing my lunch.

En una serie de famosos experimentos, el psicólogo Salomon Asch mostró que las personas presentan un nivel sorprendentemente elevado de sumisión a la presión de grupo, aun cuando sus iguales de ese grupo estén diciendo cosas que son evidentemente falsas, incluso sobre algo tan objetivo como cuál de las dos líneas que se les están mostrando es más larga (en una comparación en la que es evidente cuál es la respuesta correcta).

Los ciudadanos pueden volverse entonces indiferentes a la verdad y optar por la comodidad de un grupo de iguales en el que aislarse y en el que repetirse falsedades unos a otros. Puede que comiencen a temer dar su opinión y prefieran el consuelo de un líder que les proporcione una sensación de protección como la del interior del seno materno. Y puede que se vuelvan agresivos unos con otros y que se culpen del dolor del miedo.

Nuestra predilección por un universo en orden convierte en muy tentadoras para nosotros esas simples soluciones ficticias. Las verdades complejas son difíciles de asimilar para nuestras mentes: nos resulta mucho más fácil incinerar a la bruja que mantener la esperanza en un mundo que no está hecho para el deleite humano.

And how did he ever think he'd get away with murdering me?" Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of mortals who must go unmurdered.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder than on a person than being wrong.

But I think I've learned a lesson and that is that you have to find your own answers on things. Even if they're wrong answers. The point is in the finding.

The urge to find the real facts is destructive only to people or systems (friendships, family dynamics, political dynasties) that are based on lies. The truth can scare you half to death, but it's never as destructive as deception.

it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.

enlightenment always tastes of freedom.