Quotes About Truth

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

las acciones —no los pensamientos ni las intenciones— eran la verdadera forma de juzgar a los demás

From the outside, my life seemed charmed, and I would say as much to anyone who asked. And yet deep down, part of me would also have known that I was lying.

but because giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

Mi limito a dire alle persone quello che già sanno, ma hanno paura di ammettere con sé stesse.

Me he fijado en el modo en que la miras. Los ojos pueden delatar los sentimientos de un hombre. Los ojos siempre dicen la verdad.

Picasso dijo: «Todos sabemos que el arte no es la verdad. Es una mentira que nos hace ver la verdad, al menos aquella que nos es dado comprender».

I've learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they're afraid

Les gens parlent de la vérité comme si c'était l'élixir miracle pour tous les problèmes de la vie. Je suis là depuis assez longtemps pour savoir que ce n'est pas le cas, et que parfois la vérité peut faire plus de mal que de bien.

Still, I have to admit that I

O amor é sempre paciente e terno, nunca é invejoso. O amor nunca é pretensioso, nem vaidoso. Nunca é indelicado, nem egoista. Não se ofende, não é rancoroso. O amor não se congratula com os pecados dos outros, mas deleita-se com a verdade. Está sempre disposto a perdoar, a confiar, a esperar e a suportar todas as contrariedades.

All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are gong to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy work that is, 'divulge.' Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because you the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.

They knew that the outer surface of truth is not smooth, welling and gathering from paragraph to shapely paragraph, but is encrusted with a rough protective bark of citations, quotation marks, italics and foreign languages, a whole variorum crust of 'ibid.'s' and 'compare's' and 'see's' that are the shield for the pure flow of argument as it lives for a moment in one mind…

one of the main things that school taught, I realized, was how to lie to get by.

freedom to speak includes the freedom to be wrong.

He claims not to be drinking, but I don't think he knows what this means.

Human beings are stuck in a Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

It takes a child to say the unsayable.

What good were real feelings anyway?