Quotes About Truth

Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray.

a man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show his very special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except himself alone

A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine it. For us ex-Changi-ites—we're lucky, we're cleansed, we know what life is really all about. What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love.   —Polish Proverb

There are three things that are difficult to keep hidden: a fire, a cold, and love. —Polish Proverb

Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle. You carry the seed of belief within you already. You recall the time this narrative captures and sense conspiracy. I am here to tell you that it is all true and not at all what you think. You will read with some reluctance and capitulate in the end. The following pages will force you to succumb. I am going to tell you everything.

I'm saying it's so big and audacious that we'll most likely never be suspected. I'm saying that even if we are, the powers that be will realize that it can never be conclusively proven. I'm saying that a consensus of denial will build off of it. I'm saying that people will want to remember the man as something he wasn't. I'm saying that we'll present them with an explanation and the powers that be will prefer it to the truth, even though they know better. Marcello said, Do it. Make it happen

I told lies and wondered where I would go if my own past was all I had left.

I didn't know that costs accrue. I didn't know that you always pay for what you suppress.

There's a trick to lying. Hold to the same line, regardless of who you're with.

Memory is a mirage that fools the heart . . .

Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.

He cheats on his income tax." Dudley ha! ha! ha!'d. "So do I, so does my friend Malcolm and so would our grand savior Jesus Christ should he return and settle in America.

I don't want to start speculating. First we need facts." I

That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.

When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.

We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.

Nothing is really patriotic, however, that is not strictly true and just; any more than it is paternal love to undermine the constitution of a child by an indiscriminate indulgence in pernicious diet.

But even the falsest of men pay so much homage to truth as to seem its votaries.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.

The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It

The emperor is naked! The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!