Quotes About Truth

Me alaga. -Mejor aún, le pago. Y muy bien, que es el único halago verdadero en este mundo meretriz.

Un secreto vale lo que aquello de quienes tenemos que guardarlo.

or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. Listen

Kakav smo to svijet napravili kad u njemu više ni neznalice ne mogu da budu sre?ne?

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro." ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Saberá o louco que está louco?Ou os loucos são os outros,que se empenham em convencê-lo da sua insanidade para salvaguardarem a sua existência de quimeras?

C?rÈ›ile sînt oglinzi: vezi în ele numai ceea ce ai deja în tine..

Death cancels everything but truth… ? William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age

Facts are what facts are. Either you can live with them or you can't.

In 1654, for example, Elizabeth Drew was whipped twelve stripes (a punishment comparable to that for rape of a single woman) for naming her master's son as the father of her child. When Drew persisted in her story she was whipped an additional twenty stripes and forced to stand in public on lecture day with a paper on her forehead proclaiming herself "A SLANDERER OF MR ZEROBABELL ENDICOTT.

When exposed to the light of day, the belief that objectivity protects us against irrationality and chaos does not seem to be true.

The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.

It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence—the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

God is in the truth.

What can I possibly have in common with perpetrators of murder and torture?" It is much more reassuring to believe that they are evil and be done with them.14 We dare not let a glimmer of their humanity in the door, because it might force us to face the haunting truth of cartoonist Walt Kelly's great character Pogo, who famously said: "We have met the enemy and he is us.

A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. —George Orwell (1946)

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

I guess even really annoying people can be right sometimes.

If it had been a fairy tale, and one twin had said, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All? the mirror could have made no answer. For two qualified.