Quotes About Truth

Maybe the morning sun is a five-cent yellow balloon, And the evening stars the joke of a God gone crazy. Maybe the mothers of the world, And the life that pours from their torsal folds— Maybe it's all a lie sworn by liars, And a God with a cackling laughter says: "I, the Almighty God, I have made all this, I have made it for kaisers, czars and kings.

The dead say nothing And the dead know much And the dead hold under their tongues A locked-up story.

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. [William Petty]

non ti fidare, ragazzo mio, di quelli che promettono di farti ricco dalla mattina alla sera. Per il solito, o sono matti o imbroglioni! Il Grillo-parlante a Pinocchio

Don Juan had always said to me that our great enemy is the fact that we never believe what is happening to us.

The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves. To

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.

A veces dudo de mi memoria y me pregunto si únicamente seré capaz de recordar lo que nunca sucedió

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos, nunca con palabras.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro