Quotes About Truth

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

No matter how fast or how far she ran, she was never going to outrun herself. That was the sorry truth, Delilah thought. She was still here.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.

Contrary to all prior belief, the vast continent of arithmetical truth cannot be brought into systematic order by laying down for once and for all a fixed set of axioms and rules of inference from which every true arithmetical statement can be formally derived.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

Ä°fade özgürlüÄŸü bir mitten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.

Thus for Haeckel, to know is not to conceptualize but to see. What nature is, is visible on its surface.

Die Blindheit wächst mit der Aufklärung; der Mensch bewegt sich in einem Irrgarten von Licht. Er kennt die Macht der Finsternis nicht mehr. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2.

Life is opinion," says Marcus Aurelius.

Lo que no perdono en mi época no es lo de ser cobarde, sino tener que construir cada día la coartada de la propia cobardía difamando a los héroes

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Nichts belastet den politisch Handelnden schuldvoller als Verschweigen, er muß die Wahrheit sagen, sei sie noch so drückend, nur die Wahrheit steigert die Kraft, den Willen, die Vernunft.

Io credo a quello che trovo scritto. A voce si dicono un sacco di bugie. Ma quando uno le scrive, allora è vero.

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca". Oggi so che è vera.