Quotes About Truth

Ni a mí, que el orbe es testigo de que hipócrita no soy, pues por doequiera que voy va el escándalo conmigo.

There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

As this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost - he who accepts it has already begun to find himself.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

I have not lost the meaning of life, merely the illusion that life has a meaning.

Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.

Write whatever you want. Danny, my dear friend, write and tell me what life really is.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.

Actually all women are psychic. When a man cheats on a woman and lies to her, she already knows; she just lies to herself.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

The family historian must master the art of storytelling. What, after all, is truth without anecdote, history without events, explanation without narration--or yet life itself without a story? Stories are not just the wells from which we drink most deeply but at the same time the golden threads that hold and bind--Ariadne's precious string that leads us through the labyrinth that connects living present and the living past.

And as much as history serves as a medium for discovering the past, it also is, we confess, a means to invent it.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false.

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.