Quotes About Truth

TRUTH can never be RUTHless

Why settle for someone else's version of the truth?

I never lie!" her aunt said. 'I merely make the truth what it hopes to be.

Elegance is not everything.

No matter how significant the numbers are according to their own logic, statistics fail to convey the true, lived meaning of the suffering they contain and can thus leave us numbly indifferent.

A just culture accepts nobody's account as "true" or "right" and others wrong.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact,

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Nicht in dem Zirkel des natürliches Lebens bewegt sich die Vernunft . Ihr geht um die Einsetzung der Wahrheit in der Welt. Vorgeträumt ist ihr Reich in den echten Märchen , die keine Wundergeschichten sind, sondern die wunderbare Ankunft der Gerechtigkeit meinen.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.

In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complain when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

Understood: language would end up falsifying everything, as language always does. Writers know this only too well, they know it better than anyone else, and that is why the good ones sweat and bleed over their sentences, the best ones break themselves into pieces over their sentences, because if there is any truth to be found they believe it will be found there.

Alle bedro seg selv, og ingen ville innrømme det. Men da jeg visste dette og innrømmet at sikkerlig jeg også bedro meg selv, så var altså jeg iallfall ingen selvbedrager.