Quotes About Truth

It is almost winter," said Conor quietly. "Out of winter's darkness comes spring's light. Out of winter's sleep is born spring's new life. We cannot be without hope, not when this truth is shown us year by year.

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?

Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?

At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light, save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.

Even the most made up of stories has its roots in the truth. That one more so than many.

Go armed with your formidable courage, your passion for truth and your strength of heart.

Not every man is a liar, some of them, yes. Not all of them. There are good men out there, men who respect women, men with the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Men who'll be gentle with a newborn babe. Men who'll defend family and land and country with their dying breath.

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

deseaba tomar una esposa y vivir como un hombre normal... no para engañar a otros, sino para engañarse a sí mismo, convencerse de que no era diferente en modo alguno de otros hombres.

El muchacho le explicó, como pronunciando un sermón, que el mundo de los hombres era vil y estaba lleno de mentiras. En él, solo el arte conducía a la vida verdadera y eterna, y él mismo era grande porque sabía lo que se encontraba más allá de las puertas del arte. La muchacha no podía dudar de la nobleza de sus palabras.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.

The whole nation slid into doublespeak. Works became divorced from reality, responsibility, and people's real thoughts. Lies were told with ease because words had lost their meanings-and had ceased to be taken seriously by others.

In the absence of clear knowledge, rumours have abounded and lies have been invented and believed.

Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence.

Every word of Chairman Mao's is universal absolute truth, and every word equals ten thousand words!

Those touched-up images were not what her mirrors had been telling her for some time.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.