Quotes About Truth

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy.  Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

Le mensonge n'a jamais paru répréhensible à Mouchette, car mentir est le plus précieux, et sans doute l'unique privilège des misérables.

Too many priests have held their tongues, and I wish it had only been from pity. But we're cowards.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears...

I believe, in fact I am certain, that many men never give out the whole of themselves, their deepest truth. They live on the surface, and yet, so rich is the soil of humanity that even this thin outer layer is able to yield a kind of meager harvest which gives the illusion of real living.

Truth exists, only lies are invented.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't even there. — George Santanaya As

Most of us are confused about what is real.

It was the recommendation of John of the Cross (in a manner similar to that of Gamaliel) that one should not pay particular attention to any phenomena or experiences. If an experience were truly and directly of God, he felt, its truth would become evident naturally in one's life. If it were of something "else," it would certainly not be worthy of attention. Therefore, no special attention was necessary.

They choose not to believe. Or they think we are lying. The crime is so enormous, they won't believe it. That's what the Germans are counting on.

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

The name of a thing is not the thing.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The

They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!" The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?" "He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger.

They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?

I can tell you that I have taken all the names I have found in the newspapers and looked them up myself. I didn't find a single one of these names. This Mafia boss, this politician, Osama bin Laden. None of them have accounts here, nor are they delegates to accounts.