Quotes About Truth

But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

What about you? You ever done anything wrong in your entire life?" "Why do you ask that?" "Honey, you look like the Virgin Mary." Her chin came up. "I've done some things." "Like?" "I cheated on a test in first grade." "That bad?" "I told the teacher right away." "No surprise there.

You do not have to see the air to know you breathe it. You do not have to see the truth to believe it and you do not have to have witnessed love to feel it.

cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Paulo Coelho When

Bottom line? No one

Bones never lie. But this. This is fucked up.

We need to look unblinkered at the truth; the greater honesty we show, the freer we are to face the consequences. The root of the tyranny was Hitler's immeasurable hatred of our Jewish compatriots. Hitler never concealed this hatred from the public but made the entire nation a tool of it.

The only way it can work is for you to throw yourself on the mercy of the audience and hope they like you for what you really, truly, honestly are. The camera is the world's most sophisticated lie detector.

And I don't tell Saff the truth: that my body knows more than my brain does, too, that that's why I starve it.

Had he told anyone?

If a dream is as strong as a feeling, is it just as real?

Zen is above all a matter of personal experience. The student is asked to accept nothing the truth of which he cannot demonstrate for himself, with his own mind and body.

How noble. But that's your fatal error. Right, boy?

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.

Words are shallow troughs for the deep water of the mind and it is only the fierce, the living, the simple, the clear, the angry mind which can overflow the troughs and go out over the mud, and over the grass, bearing the light of the sun on it like an angry shield.

There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray.

We should never, ever believe life- or history- holds no surprises for us. That way lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth . . . Any truth. All truth.

Surely the truth was a really important part of any authentic relationship. But so was acceptance, and I hadn't known how to balance those two things. I still didn't. Maybe the only thing s person could really do in this life was just accept everyone exactly as they were and just love them the best she could.

The needy child voice inside me said, If she says you're a nut, then you must be a nut. She's your mother, the one who always tells the brutal truth.

Anzu [to Atem]: Even if you are two hearts in the same body...It's your own heart you'll face! So stay honest to your heart!

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.