Quotes About Truth

Date troppo corda alla fantasia. La fantasia è un'ottima serva, ma una pessima padrona. La spiegazione più semplice quasi sempre si rivela esatta.

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

Loyalty to a memory? I believe the present matters, not the past. The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms; a forced perspective.

Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)

The man obviously wanted to tell him something - and as obviously had lost the art of simple narration. Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase - that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.

They won't know. Who's to tell them? Nobody knows but you." It was the second time she had said those words. At this second repetition her voice changed a little

So she's a liar too!" I said. "The cool way she answered you this morning about these same letters!

If entries in 'Who's Who' were strictly truthful, the entries concerning Lady Stranleigh might have ended as follows: hobbies: getting married. She had floated through life shedding husbands as she went. She had lost three by divorce and one by death.

But me, I am scrupulously fair. I look always on both sides. Let us examine what occurred if Carol Boynton was innocent. She returns to the camp. She goes up to her stepmother and she finds her, shall we say, dead.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

THE ONE WHO KNEW said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Happy, that is, are those people who know that their spirituality is small, that their creeds are imperfect, that their instruction concerning God and man is incomplete. Happy are those who know that they do not know all of truth. For only those who admit their spiritual poverty are willing to learn.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.

Le des tin des abstractions est de s'accrocher à vous un instant puis de disparaître. Seuls les mots qui sont des images demeurent. Le reste est un brin de paille. Pourtant il me fallut des années pour me libérer des érudits, de leur tutelle, de leur sourire supérieur, et revenir à mes amis fidèles qui savaient qu'un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une pelote de faiblesses et de peurs.

One night I heard one of the refugees say, "There are atrocities that one should not speak about." "Why?" wondered another refugee. "I can't explain it to you." "You have to speak about everything, so that everyone will know what they did to us." "I'm not going to argue with you." "If we won't be witnesses, who will bear witness?" "They won't believe us, anyway.

Only much later did I understand that this raw material is the very marrow of literature, and that, from it, it's possible to create an interior narrative. I say "interior" because at that time chronicles were considered to be where truth was to be found. "Interior" expression had not yet been born.

Islam will win with or without you, but without islam you will get lost and lose

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When people aren't ready to hear a truth it is easier to label the discloser as insane to hide their own incapacity.

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

Faith can't be reasoned with. Otherwise it would've been called Fact.