Quotes About Truth

Todo el mundo tiene su propia versión de un recuerdo

A veces creo que la enfermedad yace agazapada en el interior de todas las mujeres, esperando el momento oportuno para aflorar... He conocido a tantísimas mujeres «enfermas» en mi vida... Enfermas, más enfermas y las más enfermas. ¿Qué era real y qué era falso?

Es la hora de romper la ilusión.

You know what I was about to say? I was about to say I don't know what to believe anymore. And then I thought, that's someone else's line. That's a line from a movie, not something I should be saying, and I wonder for a second, am I in a movie? Can I stop being in this movie? Then I know I can't. But for a second, you think, I'll say something different, and this will all change. But it won't, will it?

Los irónicos siempre se deshacen cuando se ven confrontados con la más absoluta sinceridad, es su kriptonita.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

Ho visto le vittime. Vere, reali, ho ancora negli occhi le loro facce di esseri umani sofferenti. Non credere una parola, quando diranno che hanno «sconfitto il terrorismo». Sono bugie, enormi bugie. Che difenderanno con i denti per copripre i propri crimini e i propri interessi. Ma i morti e i feriti sono lì; se ne trovano i resti e la memoria, se si ha il coraggio di farlo.

non sempre si riesce a guardarsi dentro fino in fondo, e quando lo si fa è difficile e scomodo scrivere quel che si è visto.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.

Its a poor mind that would think with the multitude, because it is multitude. Truth is not altered by the opinions of the vulgar, or by confirmations of the many

Since words are the way we communicate experiences, truth, and situations, who should know how to use them more creatively than people who are aware of their Creator? The world cries out for imaginative people who can spell out truth in words that communicate meaningfully to people in their human situation.

In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.

books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.

A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and not take excuses from them. You got to put them on a spot where they can't do nothing but face the truth because they aren't going to change a bit till they decide to do it. They got to be the ones who believe they've turned into dregs and something has got to be changed.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

The books must be written. The truth must be recorded even if fate decrees that no man ever reads a word I write. The Annals are the soul of the Black Company. They recall that this is who we are. That this is who we were. That we persevere. And that treachery, as it ever has, failed to suck the last drop of our blood.

fright tends to fatten up on ignorance

First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.

It is an absolute demanding absolutes in a world with a preference for relatives.

Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into perceived truths of the soul.