Quotes About Truth

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Sometimes, I said, a lie is the way of least pain for everyone.

You are the one honest thing I've done in my whole life.

The Kommandant thought about this, as if my answer had satisfied him. "I once wanted to be a painter. I was no good, of course. I had to confront the truth of the matter very early on." He fingered the stem of his glass. "I often think that the ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life's greatest gifts.

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It's crap, divorce,' he says. 'We tell ourselves the kids are fine, that it's better this way than two unhappy people shouting at each other, but we never dare ask them the truth.' 'The truth?' 'What they want. Because we know the answer. And it would break our hearts.

Ed,' his sister grabbed at his arm, 'the truth has no place in a courtroom.

I'm fine," she said, wondering how you could say something so patently true yet untrue at the same time.

Of course we're not happy all the time. No couple is happy all the time, and if anyone tells you they are, she's bloody lying. But you know that.

This is what catastrophe does: it strips away the fluff and the white noise, the should I really and the but what if.

that counts is the truth, McCafferty," he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. "Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

Claro que no somos felices todo el tiempo. Ninguna pareja lo es, y si alguien te dice que si, miente como un bellaco. Pero eso tú ya lo sabes.

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

What is a library, but a temple of truth? What other function do books have, the great ones, but to change the reader? Books to comfort. But most of all, books to disturb you forward.

do something a whole lot simpler: Just put on Jesus. He is the Truth (John 14:6). He is our Breastplate of Righteousness (Romans 13:14). He guides our feet in peace (Luke 1:79). He is our Shield of Faith (Hebrews 12:2). He is the Captain of our Salvation (Hebrews 2:10). He is the Word Made Flesh (John 1:14). It's all wrapped up in Him.

Christianity is not a philosophy, or theology, its Christ."-Jon Courson 5/15/19

earlier in the story we learn that God made human beings in his own likeness and image. This means they didn't eat the fruit because they wanted to be like God because they already were like God. They ate the fruit because the serpent convinced them that they weren't like God and they believed this lie.

God made human beings in his own likeness and image. This means they didn't eat the fruit because they wanted to be like God because they already were like God. They ate the fruit because the serpent convinced them that they weren't like God and they believed this lie.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln