Quotes About Truth

It is always dangerous to speak of one's own times, because what is at stake in the present is too vast for comprehension.

Doubt is the crown of life and all certainty is merely one-sided. For in uncertainty and doubt, truth and error come together. Doubt is life. When you are in doubt you have the greatest opportunity to unite the dark and the light sides of life.

La verdadera historia del espíritu no se conserva en los libros doctos, sino en el organismo vivo, anímico, de cada individuo.

So it was a two ear confession. Those are the best kind you know. The most reliable.

I'm here to pay my respects to the Kleinsasser family," Cassie said after a beat. "It's over, John Wayne. I know everything." His face twitched. The color drained out of it. "What in the hell are you talking about?" he asked. "I know about your mine," she said. "I know how you framed Blake. I know enough to put you into Deer Lodge prison for a very long time.

It seems like the good guys turned out to be the bad guys, and the bad guys weren't all that bad.

The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.

too much honesty.

Outrageous accusations should be met with outraged denials if the person accused was innocent.

road into the trees. He switched hands often. Ron said, "Sometimes you just have to tell women things even if you don't really mean it. I think they know you're bullshitting

The Golden Rule: No update operation must ever assign to any database a value that causes its database predicate to evaluate to FALSE.

justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

This fashion for symbolic designs that people have to puzzle out, it tires me. There are enough real mysteries in the world.' 'But you paint, sir.' 'If ever I find time I do. But I try in my poor way to show people directly and clearly, like Master Holbein. Art should resolve the mysteries of our being, not occlude them further.

Sometimes he wondered if most people experienced the world around them a little bit differently from their fellows, if the assumption of commonality was simply an illusion.

When one lived a life that was, essentially, a lie, appearances were everything.

The truth is frequently more dangerous than a lie.

So, which of the two men do you think is telling the truth?" Sebastian asked, his gaze on her profile. "Van der Pals? Or Vescovi?" She shook her head, "I'm not convinced either of them is. Although if I had to put money on one or the other, I'd pick the Italian harpist over the decorative Dutch courtier any day.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.

No truth can be determined that concerns the future.

If only one existence listens to it and takes it into consideration, then you don't even have to tell the truth. In telling other things, you will invariably tell the truth as well, even if you or the truth wish otherwise.

One of the several masks of this same reality.

A dor é a única emoção que não usa máscara.