Quotes About Truth

Michelle M. Pillow

As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn't they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be so confused?

War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. –SHAKESPEARE

when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.

Telling a lie causes more centres of the brain to light up than telling the truth. Telling a lie implies that you know the truth but are thinking of the lie and its myriad consequences, which requires more energy than telling the truth.

to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

But Planck would always reassure Einstein. He would write, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because the opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

White lies, in fact, are like a grease that makes society run smoothly.

This world may be a phantasm and existence may be merely a dream, but this dream or phantasm to me is real enough if using reason well we are never deceived by it.

There is an old saying: If appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science

Cuando alguien visitaba a Einstein en su casa, este les preguntaba: «¿Existe la luna porque un ratón la mira?». Pero, por mucho que la teoría cuántica violase el sentido común, algo había de verdad en ella: era experimentalmente correcta. Sus predicciones han sido corroboradas con hasta once decimales, lo que la convierte en la teoría más precisa de todos los tiempos.

The material world may come and go, but consciousness remains as the defining element, which means that consciousness, in some sense, creates reality.

la conciencia podría ser la base fundamental de toda la realidad.

Algunos críticos afirman también que un verdadero detector de mentiras, como un verdadero telépata, podría hacer que las relaciones sociales ordinarias resultasen muy incómodas, puesto que cierta cantidad de mentira es un «lubricante social» que engrasa las ruedas de la sociedad en movimiento.

Number 1: I calls 'em like I see 'em. Number 2: I calls 'em the way they are. Number 3: They ain't nothing till I calls

Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

Ninety-five percent of the beliefs we have stored in our minds are nothing but lies, and we suffer because we believe all these lies.

You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment.

We don't see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

If others say one thing, but do another, you are lying to yourself if you don't listen to their actions. But if you are truthful with yourself, you will save yourself a lot of emotional pain. Telling yourself the truth about it may hurt, but you don't need to be attached to the pain. Healing is on the way, and it's just a matter of time before things will be better for you.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.