Quotes About Truth

I am not going to believe that I can't stop him, because that is the biggest lie of all those he has ever told.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth.

People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly. We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious. We nurse a conscience because we are afraid to tell the truth to others; we take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

The ancient sages never put their teachings in systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended up making their hearers wise.

We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

to the end, and without exceptions: then all is justified and life is illumined, whereas otherwise it is an abomination and a burden

Christ did not say, "I am custom"; he said, "I am the Life".

is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

Can angels lie spine to spine? If not, how they must envy us humans

I'm driving at the fact that habits of secrecy are damaging things," Hira said in her most professorial voice. "And they underestimate other people's willingness to accept the complicated truths of your life.

I think Shehnaz was right. In the end it wasn't about the Poet, or me or anyone. It was about a minute, five minutes, ten minutes in which she believed, with utter certainty, that she simply could not endure any more.' It seemed impossible, already, to have denied this truth for so long.

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths

First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow

For me to say I wasn't a genius I would just be lying to you and to myself.

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

The truth isn't just what you see with your eyes. Not just what you see...