Quotes About Truth

Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

You can't tell your teacher that my name is James Witherspoon. Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town, and everyone knows everybody. Your other wife and your other girl is a secret?, I asked him. He put me down from his lap, so we could look each other in the face. No. You've got it the wrong way around. Dana you are the one that's a secret.

he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.

You say you want my advice. Here's what I have. Tell the truth. Don't try to cushion the blow. If you're bad enough to do it, you're bad enough to tell it.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

But who listens to the wisdom of jewelry? Only our bodies know the truth. Bones don't lie.

Prison is a haunted house of mirrors. It was impossible for me to come to the truth there.

calming breaths even as water burned my eyes. There was comfort in the truth, no matter how difficult.

if you lose it very time he tries to clean, you're encouraging him to lie.

In my mind, I picture us at our same kitchen table, in our same comfortable house, passing quiet words of truth. Georgia, this is a love letter. Everything I do is a love letter addressed to you.

What I know is this: they didn't believe me. Twelve people and not one of them took me at my word.

If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge it with science, it didn't happen.

And even if what you said in the article is true, about how you "want to raise consciousness about mass incarceration"—let's say this wasn't bullshit—please explain to me what a baby doll is going to do to help anybody in here.

I never want to feel grateful about being deceived.

When he hipped me to Go Tell It on the Mountain, he didn't say one word about Jimmy being a homosexual.

La búsqueda de D•os y la revelación final son las únicas cosas que dan sentido a la vida del hombre.

Las leyes de dios jamás podrán ser cambiadas. Estudiémoslas, porque seguimos siendo romanos y nosotros hemos invocado siempre a Dios.

Esquilo dice en su Agamenón: «Dios nos conduce por el eterno camino de la sabiduría, y la verdad solo se aprende a costa de sufrirla».

La sabiduría se basa en el conocimiento, pero el conocimiento no es siempre sabiduría.

For, after all, what is sin? It is common sense. It is reality. In truth, it is the only reality in the world, and everything else is confusion, lies, hypocrisy, sentimentality, pietistic falsehood and delusion. I suggest that you once came to this conclusion, yourself.

Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far ore dangerous. They have caused the death of more good men than any deadly truth has done. For human nature is inherently evil and it prefers lies, and delights in the suffering of the just which it has inflicted.

Dices que morirás de pena si no consigues a Livia. Los hombres no mueren de amor. Eso se dice en las poesías; pero la vida tiene poco de poética.

El hombre verdadero se aparta de la chusma vociferante que pulula por los mercados que aclama constantemente y luego es la primera en denunciar.

a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.