Quotes About Truth

You can leave. You just don't want to. And the more you give in to that urge, the more you'll come to believe the lies you're telling yourself about what you are and aren't capable of.

These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect—truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.

When others write about people who live on the edge, who challenge their comfortable lives—and it has happened to me—they usually do it in a way that allows a reader a way out. You could render generosity into pathology, commitment into obsession. That's all in the repertory of someone who wants to put the reader at ease rather than conveying the truth in a compelling manner.

Tough conversations are inevitable; forget running from them because they're sure to catch up to you.

Don't overlook the truth; properly handled, it can be an effective weapon. But bear in mind that weapons get blunted with overuse.

Biz çok iyi biliriz ki, hayat?ndan memnun görünenler beÅŸ paras?zd?r veya hak ettikleri gibi günahlar?n?n cezas?n? ödüyorlard?r. DiÄŸer taraftan, en ac?kl? ÅŸekilde yoksulluktan yak?nanlar?n da gizliden gizliye servet sahibi kiÅŸiler olduÄŸunu gayet iyi biliriz.

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom.

Telling the truth is not always easy, especially when you feel that the disclosure will hurt someone you love. But withholding information to protect someone is not only unfair to them, it is counterproductive to the relationship.

It occurred to her that the world tells lies every day,—telling on the whole much more lies than truth,—but that the world has wisely agreed that the world shall not be accused of lying.

that the facts often concealed the truth.

You must confess yourself. It is the way to love the truth. Tell me who sent you, and I will let you sit in the Eel Bath." "Let me?" This was less incentive than he thought. "And I will let you lick clean the soles of True Believers in the time beyond the Year of Carnage!

I confess that you are a bag of gleet squeezed from the purulent sphincter that is the mouth of Iyachtu Xvim!" He would not listen to the truth; what choice did I have but to return to my earlier strategy? "In the time beyond the Year of Carnage, your god shall empty the chamber pots at the Palace of Eternity, and you shall clean the garderobes!

We often fool ourselves into believing that the "good old days" were actually good, but this is far from the truth.

En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.

Teadmatus ei ole vabandus.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

The Bible is the anchor of our liberties

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.

If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your History would become monotonous. But you must act with restraint. The world condemns liars who do nothing but lie, even about the most trivial things, and it rewards poets, who lie only about the greatest things.