Quotes About Truth

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us.

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Lovecraft expresses this same sentiment as follows: "Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I've managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

the lies we want to believe tell us something about ourselves.

In proposing that one truth may derail another, it invites an enduring question—do we believe vaccination to be more monstrous than disease?

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.

He, although he received no symbols and types of high priesthood from any one, although he was not born of a race of priests, although he was not elevated to a kingdom by military guards, although he was not a prophet like those of old, although he obtained no honor nor pre-eminence among the Jews, nevertheless was adorned by the Father with all, if not with the symbols, yet with the truth itself.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived

One can always bear what is right.

We mustn't only remember the good bits," she said. "We must remember the bad bits, too, so that we know it was real.

There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn't been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run by the Brothers of Saint Patrick, a group of Irish missionaries to whom the crows had been sent.