Quotes About Truth

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

A lie is an excuse guarded.

I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery.

We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.

We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd.

Wir sehen Menschen, die wir lieben, meist nur so, wie wir sie im Kopf haben. Hin und wieder aber erhaschen wir zufällig einen Blick darauf, wie sie in Wirklichkeit aussehen, und in den Sekundenbruchteilen, die unser Gehirn braucht, um sich auf die neue Realität einzustellen, kommen kleine Dinge in uns vom Weg ab und wirbeln schreiend irgendeinen Abhang hinunter.

The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies.

When did being right become worthless, and being at fault irrelevant?

Nothing here is as it seems; Dreams are truths, and truths are dreams. Closed your ears to loved ones' cries; Die if you believe your eyes. Bind with ropes your flesh and blood, And let your guide be made of wood.

The one who first heard Zebak bells Must see the truth the mirror tells. The hand must bleed to reach the end, One finger stands the others bend. With chains and sorrow you must pay For other hands to guide your way.

To mix the brew that wakes Death sleep Fill one spread hand with silver deep. In hungry pool moons raise their heads: Pluck one and add the tears it sheds. Stir slowly with new fighter's quill, Three times, no more, and let it still. Add venom from your greatest fear-- One drop--and then the truth is clear.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.