Quotes About Truth

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Anyone standing for leader of the Labour party has a responsibility to speak truth, because without that we will never win power.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life.

You are all right. But you are all wrong too. For each of you touched only one part of the animal.

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The clerk smiled. "Yeah, but I was being generous.

They always assumed that I did not speak. That I could not. So many had plotted my death, discussed it, laughed about it, even while I was in the same room, because they assumed I was mindless. Like one of the failures of their kind, born mad. But I was not a failure. I was what I was supposed to be. I was dhampir. And they never lived to tell anyone they were wrong.

But . . . you still know the truth. You know you're faking it." "Yes, but eventually you realize something: the other side is, too. At least as often as not. Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime." He

Hakikatleri örten bir perdedir karanl?k. Onun sakl? dünyas?na tek tan?kl?k edense peÅŸinden ayr?lmayan gölgesidir.

We must find the fulcrum — the pivot point that balances gentle honesty with hard truth enveloped in love.

May you speak the truth from a loving heart. May your tongue utter no slander. May you do no wrong to a neighbor and cast no slurs. May you weigh your words carefully and keep your oaths. And may you never be shaken.

When we have trained our brain to recall and apply biblical nonnegotiables, we are equipped to speak, act, and react in ways that honor God.

the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind. -from Dracula In Love

You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.

Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says." "Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark." "But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!

Now, if we were lucky, no one would ever know they were lying down to sleep on top of a corpse. Perhaps we sleep on corpses every night do not know it.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.