Quotes About Truth

Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened.

A legend is a lie that has been whipped up to explain a universal truth.

We only remember what never really happend

He was truly a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things, and in something to which he didn't dare put a name or a face because he said as priests that was our job.

anyhow, as I was saying, if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to divide men into two camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those you don't. Whoever says that's not true is lying through his teeth.

Nobody can really be convinced of something he or she doesn't need to believe in through some biological imperative.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Corelli asked. 'Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

En esta vida se perdona todo menos decir la verdad.

The truth is what hurts.

We're all whores, sooner or later.

The more you hide the truth, the quicker it finds you - Max, The Prince of Midst

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.

Nobody can feel more compassion for a fibber than another fibber.

You're only free up to the point where you ignore the truth.

She wanted to believe him with the yearning that comes with the suspicion that truth hurts, and that cowards live longer and better, even if they do so in the prison of their own lies.

How old is the lad?' inquired Barceló, inspecting me out of the corner of his eye. 'Almost eleven,' I announced. Barceló flashed a sly smile. 'In other words, ten. Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

Una leyenda es una mentira pergeñada para explicar una verdad universal. Los lugares donde la mentira y el espejismo envenenan la tierra son particularmente fértiles para su cultivo.

Truth is never perfect, never squares with all expectations. Truth always poses doubts and questions. Only lies are one hundred percent believable, because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

Az idÅ' mindent meggyógyít, csak épp igazságot nem szolgáltat.

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is. You'll be cured eventually.

A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches," he said in the joking tone he used when he wanted to say something serious. "If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.

People get so used to lying and repeating other people's lies, either because they're afraid or out of self-interest, resentment, or sheer stupidity, and they end up lying even when they think they're telling the truth. It's the failing of our times. The honest, decent person is a species in danger of extinction . . .

Todo es un cuento, Martín. Lo que creemos, lo que conocemos, lo que recordamos e incluso lo que soñamos. Todo es un cuento, una narración, una secuencia de sucesos y personajes que comunican un contenido emocional. Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una historia que se nos cuenta. Solo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.