Quotes About Truth

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .]

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Ramsay Bolton: If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Tyrion Lannister: It's easy to confuse what is with what ought to be, especially when what is has worked out in your favor.

Real is unreal But unreal will be real

Democracy might be defined in different ways relating to contexts and interests; however everyone must accept that the universal beauty of democracy is the right to questioning and reasoning, inquiry for truth and justice.

Teaching of Maths and Science mean teaching of Truths; this teaching of natural truths is forbidden in Madrasa. In Quran the Sun revolves around the Earth even in 21st century!

Be open. And then the truth follows.

When you desire freedom, then you have to be willing to face what you have been running from in your search for it.

And the degree to which you hold back surrendering everything to love is the degree to which you suffer. The degree to which you try to maintain the story about who you think you are is the degree to which you feel isolated from love. Until you realize, "I want truth, which is love, more than anything," you will experience yourself as separate from love. Love is the constant. Love is not an aspect of truth. Truth, God, and self are aspects of love.

Life is not the same as manifestations of life. Real life, or in other words the basic substance of life, should be the former and not the latter. I had gone against real life because I was simply stringing together life's manifestations, so of course I wasn't able to accurately portray life and in the end only succeeded in distorting reality.

Sá»± th?t không th? vui tai, v?a lòng, sá»± th?t ít nhi?u v?n buá»™c ph?i có ph?n gay g?t, n?u không th? thì sao mà nhìn ???c th?ng vào v?n m?nh c?a b?n thân cÆ¡ ch?!

La verdad de la vida, es decir, la naturaleza de la vida, debe ser tal como es y no de otro modo. Si me he apartado de la verdad es porque no he expuesto mas que una serie de fenómenos de la vida que no pueden, claro está, reflejarla como es debido. El resultado es que no he hecho más que seguir un camino equivocado deformando la realidad.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

The girl may want more honesty. However, most of us want a comfortable life.

To disdain the moral pronouncements of hypocrites; to be true to my word; to always do what I promise, no more and no less. To hone my talent and wield it like a beacon in a darkening world.

Did one have to be of woman born to be real? No. No. No. His kind of reality was a sufficient reality. He had no need to be ashamed of it. And, understanding that, he understood that Gioia did not need to grow old and die.

Written and oral teaching can only seek to trigger and stimulate you, the true wu xing must come from within — as the truth derives from Nature and is constantly accessible to you. Through cultivating your inner Qi, you become strong, not as an "individual" against the world but as an integral part of the world....

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.