Quotes About Truth

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Janie's a pretty typical teenager — angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool.

What, above all, I'm primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, that's it, really. I'm taking the pith out of reality.

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. I

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

I was not talking to a sane man in those phone calls. There was a disconnect and an egotism that was at times breathtaking: His insistence that I must have known I was not his son all along. His question "Did you not notice we never bonded?" And worst of all, the utter absence of an apology or any hint that he understood what he had put me through when I eventually was the one to break the truth to him. All these things regularly float through my mind and convince me of his madness.

Why do we testify only from the moutaintops?

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz

Getting to the root of a matter is key.

Theer's no use saying pigs conner fly, when you see them catching swallows.

What do I know?' said Huw, and Gwyn was frightened by the fear in Huw's eyes. 'What do I know?... I know more than I know... I don't know what I know... The weight, the weight of it!

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

Is there light in Gorias?