Quotes About Truth

There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Because I just do. This isn't something I think in my brain—it's something I feel in my heart, and there's a mighty big difference between the two. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big." Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

You aren't happy," Estela says. "I can't be happy," I say. "Look at me, Kenzie." "I'm looking at you, Estela." "Do you know your own heart?" "I don't know anything." "Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

A memoir is never right. Nor is the memoirist.

You will write toward truth but even then you will be lying. For writing freezes what was in time, and time cannot be frozen, and what is here on this page will be left on this page, and you will keep on moving. Over hills. And through cracked valleys.

Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Problems that are not resolved today will most likely never be resolved. It hurts to hear, but it's the truth.

Everything was perception; nothing was real.

I began to see the world the way it is, instead the way I wanted it to be.

When I stopped to pay attention to where my breathing was deep and settled, the truth began to emerge from the mist.

So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep." JOHN 10:7

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

There is never 'a' lie but immediately a second lie – the one we tell ourselves that we've not told a lie.

Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.