Quotes About Truth

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

Hitler Tanr?'ysa,ben de Tanr?'y?m.Ama ikimizin de Tanr? falan olmad???n? dü?ünmek daha mant?kl? tabii.Ve daha makul

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

When I say we do not

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner. "Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things…

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort." —

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.

Every memory we have changes slightly each time we think about it. We add stuff we learn in other places, or we forget stuff that doesn't seem important anymore. Or you think you remember something, like from your childhood, but actually you've just seen so many pictures of it, and your parents have told you about it, so you think you remember it, but you don't. A memory is a process. Instead of a thing. Like a story we tell ourselves that changes from the standpoint we're looking at it.

I'm always intrigued by the different ways people decide what to believe. I mean, look at this -- they're taken from all over the place. Celtic knots, Eastern philosophy, the New Age. Past and present collapsed into a buffet of equivalent options all in pursuit of the divine.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.

There is more than one truth, more than one perspective, more than one way "to be." The "truth" - the one and only right answer - changes, morphs, moves in a never-ending circle.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Certainly, all esoterism appears to be tinged with heresy from the point of view of the corresponding exoterism, but this obviously does not disqualify it if it is intrinsically orthodox, and thus in conformity with truth as such and with the traditional symbolism to which it pertains; it is true that the most authentic esoterism can incidentally depart from this framework and refer to foreign symbolisms, but it cannot be syncretistic in its very substance.

Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the Spirit becomes the ego in order that the ego may become pure Spirit; the Spirit becomes ego by incarnating in the mind in the form of intellection, of truth, and the ego becomes the Spirit through uniting with it.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

He who will not freely and sadly confess that he is much a fool is all a fool.

Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.