Quotes About Truth

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world can't do without him is yet more mistaken.

'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

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God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

A che pro disegnare l'Impossibile? Perché è la verità, forse velata e mascherata, ma eterna.

As for the wine in the cups, it looked like water; but, as it tasted all right, what did its looks signify?