Quotes About Truth

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something .

We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can't even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

La vida es algo terrible y tras el telón de lo conocido asoman atisbos de demoníaca verdad que la hacen a veces infinitamente más temible.

la belleza. Cuando la verdad y la experiencia no se la mostraron, se volvió hacia la fantasía y la ilusión, hallándola en sus mismos umbrales, entre los nebulosos recuerdos de los cuentos de su niñez y entre los sueños.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Pode ser um pecado pensar mal dos outros, mas raramente sera um engano

The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.