Quotes About Truth

We all have to go from not knowing to knowing. If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect.

And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

Yeah. That's the problem with trials. Somehow they have it in their heads, the judge and jury, that they'll decide what's the truth. But the truth already happened. They can't decide what happened. They can only be right or wrong about it. Seems like too many times they're wrong.

Maybe you hate a thing more than anything. But it's what is. To accept it means to see that it is that way, and that it won't be another way no matter how much you hate it.

No happy marriage was, in his estimation, ever based on thoughtless, automatic untruths and exclusions. And the best way to make someone unhappy, if not downright unbalanced, is to tell her that what she sees with her own eyes is not there at all.

If there's one thing I learned growing up, it's that you have to talk to kids a lot, and you have to tell them the damn truth.

It was that ugly moment when you had to back up through time inside your head, and reframe everything you thought you knew about somebody. You had to revise reality after the fact. At least the reality you thought you knew.

It seems important," she says. "It just doesn't seem wrong.

feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to suit the feelings of those we love and want to protect." He

have always felt," Nathan said, "that the truth is simply the truth. And perhaps does not exist for us to bend and revise. Or even filter to

I think we all more or less know where we stand with people, whether we like to admit it to ourselves or not.

Nothing is more dangerous than words. Words can kill your soul.

Things don't wait for you to believe them. They happen. God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.

When something is true, it takes a lot of energy to pretend it's not. It pretty much uses up the life energy a person's got and doesn't leave much energy for anything else. After years of that, you just get so exhausted. Almost everything sounds okay if it comes with a rest.

I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency.

So, who's stronger, the man who looks truth in the eye, or the man who tells himself lies to make it go away?

No such thing as too truthful," I said.

Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive.

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain. I think it only matters if the words are right.

How can it be good to know nothing?" "It's not. But if you know nothing, it's good to know that you know nothing." "Oh," Grace said. "Yeah, I guess." "Because as long as you think you know everything, nothing changes.