Quotes About Truth

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.

Did Mari Carmen's "secret" intimate conversation with Leslie influence Leslie's grand jury testimony the next day, Wednesday, November 15th? Leslie was the first witness. Her account was lucid and straightforward at moments, hedging and reticent at others, and occasionally, fractured and jumbled. Was she trying to please whoever was questioning her? Or was she responding to someone who had talked to her last night or last month?

To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

One cannot play fast and loose with what one knows to be true.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. What does that tell you about the nature of life, and does one really want to know?

One of the greatest Reasons why so few People understand themselves, is, that most Writers are always teaching Men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Quand on s'est habitué aux mensonges, la vérité a l'air suspecte.

Le péché vaut mieux que l'hypocrisie.

Cela vous inquiète ? - Non. Les changements ne sont pas inquiétants. L'immobilité et le mensonge sont bien pires.

I don't want you to give in, I want you to change, to understand my reasoning at a deeper level and accept it as the truth.

the truth is that hierarchies of power and privilege won't disappear, every historian knows this, it's innate to human nature and inherent in all societies in all eras and equally manifests in the animal kingdom, so I can't pretend otherwise

I don't want you to give in, I want you to change, to understand my reasoning at a deeper level and accept it as the truth.

Devant le mystère il convient de s'ouvrir et de se dévoiler tout entier afin de forcer le mystère à se dévoiler à son tour.

Pero lo peor, pese a todo, no es que haya muchas inexactitudes y mentiras, pues eso quizá sea una característica de todas las memorias. Lo peor es que recordar y poner en el papel lo recordado no trae alivio alguno. En vez de disminuir, las preguntas se multiplican, y la angustia se hace más honda.

Qué creías que era vivir? ¿Creérselo todo y echarse a dormir? (P. 7)

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There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths...