Quotes About Truth

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream, you manufacture illusions!

Later tonight am going to tell you that I love you and maybe by that time you will be drunk enough to believe me.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Yo no puedo cambiar la verdad! Yo no soy Dios. Ni siquiera estoy segura que él pudiese. No creo que Dios mismo pueda cambiar la verdad.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways I'm worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful - I don't know but - anyway - we've been friends... - And being friends is telling each other the truth...

I'm not going to be hypocritical, I'm going to be honestly critical

Entra Tom. Va vestido como un marino mercante. Cruza hasta la escalera de incendios, donde se detiene y enciende un cigarrillo. Se dirige el público.   TOM: Es cierto, me reservo algunos trucos, me guardo algún as en la manga. Pero soy lo contrario de un mago de la escena. Él ofrece una ilusión con apariencia de verdad, yo os entregaré la verdad con el amable disfraz de la ilusión.

This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself.

In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him truth that he and his world which he was born and raised in, yours and his world, had told him could not be told?

Honey, you're not operating on the realistic level anymore than I am.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told.

The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. That's God's truth. Who do you think you are that you should worry, for crying out loud? It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is in fact a form of hubris.

What I've done here this evening is just create a string of metaphors to try and pique your interest. Not once did I do justice to the truth of the situation or the depth of the psychedelic experience, because it cannot be told. It cannot be told. My technique is to tell the wildest, strangest story I can think of, claim that's the psychedelic experience, and leave it at that. But you should all know that the journey begins where the words stop.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.

she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did?

Never tell the whole truth in a trade. A favor is an investment.

Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture.

Either you believed in something or you didn't—you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.

We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon