Quotes About Truth

Oh, I know I could say were through And tell myself I'm over you But even if I made a vow I promise not to miss you now And try to hide the truth inside I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie *

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

It all sounds like braggadocio, I suppose. But I can't help that. It's just the way I felt. Truth is truth, you know.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Everyone in our town has a story--but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.

It is strange, then, that the friends of truth and the promoters of freedom have not risen up against the present propaganda in the schools and crushed it.

That we can act in the world not as we are "in reality" is, for Gurov, a very good thing. Our public life, "which was visible to everybody who needed to know about it, but was full of conditional truth and conditional deceit" was balanced by a private life, which was hidden from others and in which we are sincere. Doubleness is not duplicity. It is precisely the sincerity of what is hidden that makes tolerance so necessary and moral condemnation so difficult.

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms" (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

There's more to the story you don't know because you did not live it."

Our favorite messengers are sometimes wrong and our least favorite messengers are sometimes right.

I hate this case,' stated Gibbons unequivocally. 'I don't know what really happened, I shall probably never know what really happened, and I shall still be a detective sergeant when I'm sixty.

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

All knowledge hurts.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then." She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.