Quotes About Truth

Tell me your story and I will get back your life.

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.

Though it may be interesting to know how many hairs there are on the human head, or how the giant red spot on the surface of Jupiter was formed, the real truths we are interested in are those about ourselves.

Base your self-esteem on truth.

When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

Examining the background of anyone can bring skeletons to our attention; a blot on the landscape can mar all what pleases the eye. This is how Malcolm Price was perceived by those who would stand back in fear of what he was all about, yet nothing could be further from the truth!

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

What your mind wants to believe will become the reality, regardless of the truth or falsity in the statement.

I got my lawyer to visit me in the jail. He couldn't believe the bruising over my body, so he pulled the governor and asked why I was covered in marks. The governor said to my lawyer that it was 'self-inflicted' and was caused by my 'running into walls'. That part was disproved because walls don't leave footprints all over your body.

Elphaba: "I just wish ..." Fiyero: "What?" Elphaba: "I wish I could be beautiful ... for you." Fiyero: "Elphaba ..." Elphaba: "Don't tell me that I am. You don't need to lie to me." Fiyero: "It's not lying! It's looking at things another way.

Some of us don't like the way you've been telling it.

Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.

reality just seems to come in certain undeniable chunks.

Truth is a hard dear to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation" (2 Tim. 3:16 MSG

Author Max De Pree has written, "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality."1

Life is a joke. Unfortunately, the joke is on us.

You must be blind if you can't see The gaping hole called reality.

This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

Isn't there something you want to tell me, something filthy and lovely and true