Quotes About Truth

A good lie reveals more than the truth can ever reveal.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

On one side of the ledger are the books man has written, containing such a hodgepodge of wisdom and nonsense, of truth and falsehood, that if one lived to be as old as Methuselah one couldn't disentangle the mess; on the other side of the ledger things like toenails, hair, teeth, blood, ovaries, if you will, all incalculable and all written in another kind of ink, in another script, an incomprehensible, undecipherable script.

Can you stop dead, and without thinking, radiate the truth which you know?

Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. Switching from one ideology to another is a useless game.

What we don't want to face, what we don't want to hear or listen to, whether it be nonsense, treason or sacrilege, are precisely the things we must give heed to. Even the idiot may have a message for us. Maybe I am one of those idiots. But I will have my say.

I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was sincere; if it was in bad taste, it was on the side of life.

Despite all the talk about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, electoral freedom, and so on, I dare say it would be a shock to know what the common man thinks about the problems which confront the world. The common man is always cleverly set off one against the other, children are always ruled out, young people are ordered to conform and obey, and the views of the wise, the saintly, the true servers of mankind, are forever scorned as impractical.

That is to say, he had no theory at all, except to penetrate to the very essence of things and, in the light of each fresh revelation to so live his life that there would be a minimum of discord between the truths which were revealed to him and the exemplification of these truths in action.

He had a little story for every situation, Ghompal. I relished them hugely; they were like simple, homeopathic remedies, little pellets of truth garbed in some innocuous cloak. You could never forget them afterwards, that was what I liked about these yarns. We write fat books to expound a simple idea; the Oriental tells a simple, pointed story which lodges in your brain like a diamond

On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Cuando me dejó, fingía o quizá lo creyera, que era necesario para nuestro bien. Yo sabía en el fondo de mi corazón que estaba intentando liberarse de mí, pero era demasiado cobarde como para reconocerlo.

If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.

Ceea ce nu se afl? în strad? este fals, mijlocit, altfel spus, literatur?.

Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion.

Nothing that had happen to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed except my illusions. I myself was intact. The world was intact.

Par être fou, on entend perdre la raison. La raison mais non la vérité, car il est des fous qui disent la vérité alors que les autres se taisent… »

Grover fue el único ser auténticamente alegre que conocí en mi vida y, en consecuencia, esto es un pequeño monumento que estoy erigiendo en su memoria, en memoria de esa certidumbre alegre. Es una lástima que tuviera que usar a Cristo de muleta, pero es que, ¿qué importa como se llegue a la verdad, con tal de que la captemos y vivamos gracias a ella?.

Squirrels are blamed for many crimes they are not responsible for, but in this case honesty compels me to say it was the squirrels done it. I saw them.

So the role of the Holy Spirit is not to bring God's presence to the world, but to reveal it.

There is a world of difference between knowing something to be true in your head and experiencing the reality in your life.

God always has a fresh and deeper truth He wants us to learn about Him.

When our faith is based primarily on the wisdom of men and not on the power of God, we've just nullified most of what God intended for our lives. When our faith is built only on a collection of doctrines, we miss out on the Person who wants to be our life.

Divine truth is not something we "discover;" it is revealed by the Holy Spirit of God. As such, no other reality in the Christian life is as important as being filled with the Spirit.