Quotes About Truth

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

book of life, every page have two sides.'" "The

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de regarder les choses en face. La vie est le résultat de la malpropreté. Si la nature avait été bien tenue, la vie ne serait jamais apparue. La vie est née de quelques vagues saletés au fond d'une flaque d'eau boueuse. La vie, donc l'homme. Il n'y a vraiment pas de quoi être fier.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Why, I wondered, did we, all of us, both the rector in his pulpit and simple Lottie in her croft, seek to put the Plague in unseen hands? Why should this thing be either a test of faith sent by God, or the evil working of the Devil in the world? One of these beliefs we embraced, the other we scorned as superstition. But perhaps each was false, equally. Perhaps the Plague was neither of God nor the Devil, but simply a thing in Nature, as the stone on which we stub a toe.

But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.

I never promised I would write the truth. I

I suppose the answer was that if something can be known, I can't stand not knowing it.

others to cover the signs of our

They were, all of them, lost to a narrative untethered to anything he recognized as true. Their mad conception of Mr. Lincoln as some kind of cloven-hoofed devil's scion, their complete disregard—denial—of the humanity of the enslaved, their fabulous notions of what evils the Federal government intended for them should their cause fail—all of it was ingrained so deep, beyond the reach of reasonable dialogue or evidence.

For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface phenomena to reveal the universal,unified cosmos beneath--that fundamental,unchanging phenomenon we call truth.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

Er is niets tegen geoudehoer, zolang er maar Gods zegen op rust, dat is wat ik altijd zeg.

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheit en athletiek op Zondagmiddag?

Ik ben een revist, veel en veel meer dan jij. Voor mij zijn de voorstelling en de idee vrijwel even belangrijk en reëel als de tastbare werkelijkheid.

Waar gebeurd is geen excuus.

Is het niet zo, dat men in het ondergaande, het ontbindende en hopeloos strijdende veel gemakkelijker de waarheid kan ontdekken dan in het bloeiende, zich samenvoegende en groeiende? Is het niet een feit, dat ziekte en dood veel duidelijker het wezen van het bestaan aan het licht brengen dan gezondheid en athletiek op Zondagmiddag

according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything

No one ever thinks his way out of despair. He must be rescued by the "event" of love. Explanations usually drive a despairing one deeper into lostness or prove to be untrue by pretending to be complete.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte