Quotes About Truth

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I don't want realism…. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!… I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Through the teachings, the introduction by the master, the practice, and the blessings, you can gradually deconstruct and dissolve the karmic conceptual body and be introduced to another type of body and identity called the illusory wisdom body (yeshé gyumé lü). This second body is characterized by wisdom—realization of the truth—and by a positive sense of the illusory.

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

La memoria no existe y todo es incorrecto y falso, apenas merecedor del nombre de ensueño. Estaba,

The devil makes you think you are poor and makes even others who practice prayer think this of themselves. And he is somewhat right because you have promised poverty -- orally, that is. I say orally, for it is impossible that, if with the heart we understand what we promise and then promise it, the devil could draw us for twenty years and even our whole lives into this temptation; 'impossible,' because we would see that we are deceiving the world and our own selves.

She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction