Quotes About Truth

You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.

Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.

You're never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

No mentí. A veces cuando nos enamoramos, tomamos los hechos y los convertimos en historias bonitas. Pero es peligroso hacerlo; porque un día, te guste o no, verás el mundo como realmente es.

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

If an observer can only make sense of the "reality" through different idiosyncratic lenses, this forces us to rethink our notion of objectivity.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.

Bilgi güçtür, bilgi özgürle?tirir.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

Irgendwann jedoch mußten die Philosophen sich einer schlich­ten, peinlicherweise unbestreitbaren Tatsache stellen und mit ihr fertigwerden: Nicht eine der Fragen, die zweieinhalb Jahr­ tausende lang die europäische Philosophie lebendig erhalten haben, ist je zur allgemeinen Zufriedenheit gelöst worden - sie alle sind noch immer umstritten oder wurden per Dekret der Philosophen für hinfällig erklärt.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

Ik zat eraan te denken dat ik nooit zou geloven dat dit leven met zijn liefde, streven naar waarheid en geluk, zijn weerlichten en verre ruisen van water in deze nacht zinloos en redeloos was, wie dat ook mocht beweren. Ieder van ons moet – alom en altijd, en tot aan het einde van zijn dagen – strijden voor de verankering van dit leven. == 1946

To tell the truth, I was simply going to take on the external mannerisms of my acquaintance," admitted Paul frankly. "That was a great mistake," Tortsov replied. "At that point you went over to sheer imitation, which has nothing to do with creativeness

When you point out to him the palpable absurdity of some false action he has taken he is more than willing to cut it. But what can he do if his own feelings are not able to convince him? Who will guarantee that, having rid himself of one lie, another will not immediately take its place? A grain of truth must be planted under the falsehood, eventually to supplant it, as a child's second set of teeth pushes out the first.

For the next four years, they will again and again tout themselves as "real" and I will be too naïve to know that anyone who uses that designation is disguising a representation of immense falsity

Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around

Richard paused again. Bert hated that pause; he knew it all too well from his meetings with the town selectmen. Bureaucrats implemented such pauses when they were adjusting the truth or trying to decide how much of it the sheriff needed to know.