Quotes About Truth

And who are the true philosophers? Those who love the sight of truth.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

La mélancolie est une maladie qui consiste à voir les choses comme elles sont.

Hayallerimizin yeryüzüne ancak bize nanik yap?p a?z?m?za bir parmak bal, a?ulu bal gibi bir ?ey çalacak kadar bir zaman dilimi için indi?ini kesin olarak anlam??t?m.

Ad?n? koyamad???m?z her ?eyin fakiri oldu?umuz o kadar do?ru ki.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

But there is, of course, no excuse. For it is not really his art but his life that he is talking about, and for one's life not living up to expectation there is no excuse, except for the paltry one that this is true of everybody's life.

Socrates. The whole Socratic problematics of 'to know' (to think you know, to know that you do not know, to know that it is possible to know or that it is possible to try to know, etc.), on which ultimately depends the way we choose our lives, seemed to Dragomir to be the supreme enigma of philosophy, and the thing to which it was worth dedicating your life.

Medicii numesc aceast? stare depresie. Eu o în?e­leg mai bine ca dezagregare a sistemului de iluzii în virtutea c?ruia înaint?m, f?ptuim, ne agit?m, d?m contur clipei urm?toare ?i zilei de mâine.

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

He who excuses himself accuses himself.

I don't want to know, but I would like to know it all from your own mouth, how she fell, what she said when she screamed and whether she cursed or blessed you.

Thus we see everyone—young and old, women, laborers, professionals, politicians, and actors—seeking the "truth" about their future. This sort of crowd will always find another crowd: sorcerers, soothsayers, astrologers, card readers, prana therapists, and fortune-tellers of all kinds. Those who turn to them are motivated by chance, or hope, or desperation, or as an experiment.

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed, dark places that I might like to visit. People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.

You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

Stop saying that! You sound absurd, and I don't even think you mean it. Besides, I'd never marry you," I told him. "I'm sixteen, and you're a slut, and you can't stop saying preposterous things!" "True," he admitted. He kissed me on the lips and then I closed the door.

And this is the truth of any game - it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.

Theo nodded slowly. "You love Balanchine chocolate like I love cacao." "I wouldn't say love , Theo." "No, you speak the truth. Love isn't right. It isn't right for me either. Sometimes I hate cacao." Theo looked at me. "You don't love Balanchine chocolate. You are Balanchine chocolate.

An "online presence" is "all the true things and all the lies about a person on the Internet.

she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.