Quotes About Truth

Whoever pretends not to believe in ghosts of any sort, lies to his own heart. Every man is haunted by ghosts... thought most of us (poets excepted) are unwilling to confess the acquaintance.

We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge.

But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

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I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

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Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a "dream" is going crazy.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength." "Strength," she said with a little laugh. "I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream is my dream, and your name is true. You are all of our hope.

What does "true" even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away ...

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

She spoke in the same quiet and unnerving way as she had in the war council, and with the same effect: Liraz spoke, and truth was born.

There is no god, you fools. There are only monsters, and I am the worst of them.

And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong.