Quotes About Truth

Zabluda je uobraziti da se sudbina može iscrpsti i da se može dodirnuti dno makar ?ega bilo.

Desconfiemos. El pasado tiene un rostro : la superstición, y una máscara : la hipocresía. Denunciemos el rostro y arranquemos la máscara.

Ele supunha ter, e talvez tivesse efetivamente, atingido a realidade da vida e da filosofia humana, chegando por fim a não contemplar senão o céu, única coisa que a verdade pode ver do fundo do seu poço.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

There is a way of encountering error while on one's way to the truth.

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.

Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

What is, is, and what isn't, isn't.

A thing can be true and not the truth, now shush.

My grandfather was a Texas Ranger. He used to tell me that courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored.

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted; to be loved and admired. Now i think perhaps I'd like to be known.

Leni sighed. How was Mama's unshakable belief in Dad any different than his fear of Armageddon? Did adults just look at the world and see what they wanted to see, think what they wanted to think? Did evidence and experience mean nothing?

I'd always believed that the truth of a person was easily spotted, a line drawn in dark ink on white paper. Now, I wonder. Maybe the truth of who we are lies hidden in all those shades of gray that everyone talks about.

This is my resolution for the New Year. I will be honest with myself. I'll keep my eyes open. I'll see what's there, not just what I want to see.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." —ANAÏS NIN

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother.

Men tell stories", I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.

Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they? I am forty years old, and I only just learned this fundamental truth myself. Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation. I

My grandfather was a Texas Ranger. He used to tell me that courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored." She looked at him. "Well, I'm scared.

On paper, did she and Mama even exist? And what if he found them anyway?

It can't be true," she said. "The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

If I had told him the truth long ago, or had danced and drunk and sung more, maybe he would have seen me instead of a dependable, ordinary mother. He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.