Quotes About Truth

Things are as they are.

The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.

Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde.

Nos quejamos de lo mal que están las cosas, pero yo a veces me pregunto si no están ya mucho peor de lo que nos imaginamos

in a rash moment he decided to lie his way to the truth. If he wasn't mistaken, Ellen Magnusson had had very little experience with the police. She would assume that they searched for the truth by being honest themselves. She was the one who would lie, not the police.

The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves

Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.

The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.

Quel suo fantomatico viaggio sulle Alpi aveva svelato una verità nascosta che portava dentro di sé. Sapeva di non essere un uomo che si nasconde dietro alle proprie menzogne. Ma allo stesso tempo aveva iniziato a chiedersi sempre più spesso se la sua visione del mondo non fosse in realtà una specie di menzogna, anche se derivava da una mancanza di sensibilità più che da un consapevole allontanamento dalla verità.

Even as a ten-year-old, the incident made it clear to me that people are never completely what we believe they are. Including me. There is always something unexpected within those we meet, those we think we have got to know.

After all his years as a politician he realised all that was left was the lie. The truth disguised as a lie or the lie dressed up as the truth.

Trusting what a person says is always a risk. The truth is always provisional, while lies are often solid.

We have to see things simply, but without simplifying. - Rydberg

Después de tantos años como político había comprendido que lo único que quedaba era la mentira. La verdad disfrazada de mentira o la mentira encubierta de verdad.

Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander

Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund

slowly peel away all the extraneous layers. There are tracks and marks left at every crime scene, like shadows of the event itself. That's what you have to find.

The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.

Rumours don't usually get started without a reason. - Kurt Wallander

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.

You have to acknowledge where you are and affirm that place. You have to be willing to live your loneliness, your incompleteness, your lack of total incarnation fearlessly, and trust that God will give you the people to keep showing you the truth of who you are.