Quotes About Truth

This strange gladness, this elation, would not outlive the return of common sense and cold reality.

Nem sempre podemos esconder-nos da vida. (…) É melhor nem sequer tentar e encarar simplesmente o que precisa de ser encarado.

When people live in denial of the truth—sometimes large groups of them all together—they lose their . . . I am not sure of the right word. They lose something precious, something good and right and true. Their integrity, perhaps? You forced everyone to confront the truth—even those who did not know it before

You must not look for a grand romance, you know, however much you always enjoy it between the pages of a book.

She was feeling almost happy. She allowed herself the qualifier of almost because she had accepted the fact that self-deception was also self-destructive. She would not deceive herself any more or hide behind any mask in an attempt to shield herself from the reality of her life.

Acaso existía el amor verdadero? La vida sería muy triste si no existiera... En realidad, sería insoportable si los desengaños del amor romántico convirtieran a una persona en una cínica incurable.

Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.

Ah, don't lie to me, he said. Believe me, I want to understand, I want to forgive. When I see you and when I hold you, I cannot believe that you are capable of the villainy that I have accepted all these years. I want you, Elizabeth.

He knew a lot of facts. But ultimately, as always, he must sketch and paint from intuition and trust that it was more true than all the facts he had amassed. Facts missed a great deal. Facts missed what lay beneath the facts. Facts missed spirit.

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.

everyone lies.

Eyewitnesses could be the most unreliable. Not only did people lie, but even the truth tellers did not always get it right. Human brains had a way of filling in details that fit their own personal worldviews.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. —Ice Cube

Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God.… And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us!

It is a scholar's task to find patterns in nature or cycles in history. Initially, it's no different from finding portraits of animals and heroes in the stars. The question is, Have you discovered a preexisting truth? Or have you imposed an arbitrary meaning on whatever it is you're considering?

Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella) Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm)

Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.

I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell. Feelings are facts," she said, her voice a little hard, as she began to walk again. "Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If

don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel. That's how things slide into hell.

The trouble with illusions... is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken from you

There is simply no alternative. We have to know them.

His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John

After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.

But there you are: the reasons for going to war might be a shameless hoax, but the war itself was real, and by God, America was in it!