Quotes About Truth

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Let my tale be a warning. Sure as blood shall be all our undoing, it is stories that set us all free. The stories are all that matter.

Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.

It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

Perhaps the most popular sign is eye contact. We often read in books or see in movies that a person who cannot maintain eye contact could be lying. Or it could mean that he or she is hiding something from you. Meanwhile, maintaining eye contact means attentiveness in the conversation and honesty.

Be brutally honest and straightforward. I

When we're talking about honesty, it's important to be honest with yourself about your feelings and emotions. If

That also goes to being honest with yourself and your emotions.

What was the secret that the serpent told Eve? That she could eat a certain fruit? Pah. That was a euphemism. The fruit was carnal knowledge and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it.

When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

A própria palavra "sedução" implica mentira e manipulação.

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

To see the object as in itself it really is

What is contemplation? Says Aquinas: "Contemplation regards the simple act of gazing on truth.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Rather than building your self-esteem on being right, you might reform your picture of yourself into that of one who, above all, wants to find the truth. Listening

How odd it must be to go through life believing that a book is a book.

To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow; yes, that may be part of the pedestrian definition. It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer.

It is always in the parts that we cannot fully understand - the holes in a story, the piece missing - where the real truth of the thing lurks...

Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour—when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.