Quotes About Truth

Ella es una de las mujeres de Dios, confeccionadas por sus propias manos para mostrarnos a los hombres y a otras mujeres que existe un cielo en donde podemos entrar, y que su luz puede estar aquí en la tierra. Tan veraz, tan dulce, tan noble, tan desinteresada, y eso, permítame decirle a usted, es mucho en esta edad tan escéptica y egoísta

Ah, amigo mío, no entiendes nada. Crees que no estoy triste porque me río. Lloraba mientras me ahogaba de risa. Tampoco creas que solo experimento tristeza cuando lloro. No olvides jamás que la risa que llama a la puerta y que pregunta: «¿Puedo entrar?», no es la verdadera risa. No, la risa es un rey que llega cuando y como le place. No pide permiso, ya que solo el suyo importa.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.

Faith, that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.

So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish.

A lie twice believed is self decieved

Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable.

We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

Why are all these masks winking? Jason pointed around the room with his fork. The loremaster dabbed at his mouth with a frilled purple napkin. One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

Vannessa wasn't wrong.

The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.

Want to know the quikest way to deafen people? Tell them the truth. - Prescia

The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even manage to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die.

Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.

I no longer fear honesty. I have learned that anything important accomplished through dishonest means eventually unravels. Facing unpleasant truths protects us from building on faulty foundations.

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.

my mother finally told him, possibly years

Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.

I chose protection over honesty.

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.