Quotes About Truth

The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.

The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118)

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' - Great Aunt Celia

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' Great Aunt Celia, The Spider Goddess.

The service of great kings may carry its own rewards, but the service of truth goes unrewarded and is, for that very reason, worth far more.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.

One must gradually learn the truth about the boundaries between what is great and what is small.

I knew now there was no such thing as a biblioblackhole. Everything written truly lived. Every real word. Every real story. You had to find your words. You had to find your story.

We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first. We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end. We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself—an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.

people's secrets than you do their public acts.

Understanding conventional truth enables the practitioner to develop the method side—compassion, concentration, and ethics—whereas understanding ultimate truth leads to the realization of the wisdom side—emptiness.

People who want to be free from suffering need to cultivate an understanding of reality, the wisdom of ultimate truth, while developing the method side of the practice, which entails a thorough understanding of conventional truth. There is no other way.

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

Vous savez, Miss Jarmond, faire revivre le passé n'es pas chose facile. On a parfois des surprises désagréables. La vérité est plus terrible que l'ignorance.

family secret that was about to disrupt her

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Nothing shatters the reality of our good intentions like reality.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.