Quotes About Truth

means that people, unsettled by their vulnerability, eternally fear to tell the truth, to mediate between chaos and order, and to manifest their destiny.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now. Take a walk down any busy urban street. Keep your eyes open and pay attention. You will see people who are there, now. These are the people to whom you instinctively give a wide berth. These are the people who are immediately angered if you direct your gaze toward them, although sometimes they will instead turn away in shame.

But not thinking about something you don't want to know about doesn't make it go away. You

An inauthentic person continues to perceive and act in ways his own experience has demonstrated false. He does not speak with his own voice.

Jordan B. Peterson

the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

Realization is dawning. Instead of playing the tyrant, therefore, you are paying attention. You are telling the truth, instead of manipulating the world.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." First, it is easy to assume that "nature" is something with a nature—something static.

What does that imply? It might be that the true meaning of life is available for discovery, if it can be discovered at all, by each individual, alone—although in communication with others, past and present.

Uma personalidade saudável, dinâmica e, acima de tudo, verdadeira, admitirá quando cometeu um erro. Abandonará voluntariamente – ou deixará morrer – perceções, pensamentos e hábitos ultrapassados, olhando-os como impedimentos à continuação do seu crescimento e êxito. Esta alma é a que deixará velhas crenças serem consumidas, muitas vezes de forma dolorosa, para poder voltar a viver e avançar, renovada.

or (this one is particularly evil) "to ensure that it is always my unloved child's fault." These are all examples of what Sigmund Freud's compatriot, the lesser-known Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler, called "life-lies."149

The healthy, dynamic, and above all else truthful personality will admit to error. It will voluntarily shed—let die—outdated perceptions, thoughts, and habits, as impediments to its further success and growth.

Fue el engaño lo que mató a centenares de millones de personas en el siglo XX. Fue el engaño lo que casi condena por completo a la civilización. Es el engaño lo que aún hoy en día nos amenaza de forma total y absoluta.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what god they serve.

Ir a lo fácil o decir la verdad no son solamente dos opciones distintas. Son dos caminos diferentes que atraviesan la vida. Son dos formas totalmente distintas de existir.

To accept the truth means to sacrifice—and if you have rejected the truth for a long time, then you've run up a dangerously large sacrificial debt.

For the big lie, you first need the little lie. The little lie is, metaphorically speaking, the bait used by the Father of Lies to hook his victims. The human capacity for imagination makes us capable of dreaming up and creating alternative worlds. This is the ultimate source of our creativity. With that singular capacity, however, comes the counterpart, the opposite side of the coin: we can deceive ourselves and others into believing and acting as if things are other than we know they are.

what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination.

Jordan B. Peterson

There are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don't know, what God they serve.

At the beginning of time, according to the great Western tradition, the Word of God transformed chaos into Being through the act of speech. It is axiomatic, within that tradition, that man and woman alike are made in the image of that God. We also transform chaos into Being, through speech. We transform the manifold possibilities of the future into the actualities of past and present. To tell the truth is to bring the most habitable reality into Being.

same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then

A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.