Quotes About Truth

During training, a lot of focus is placed on getting at a submissive's emotional core. Submission is about truth, about revealing yourself. If you simply demand obedience without understanding a sub's true motivations and needs, even if the sub obeys every command to the letter and every aspect of every scene, they're just going through the motions, and so are you." "Yes!

If you're searching for the truth, throw out all your prejudices and just gather the facts. If you do that, you'll be able to see the real truth.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity.

You can't deceive me with a dream.

Whether you understand it or don't understand . . . whether you accept it or not . . . what is, is. That's all there is to it.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

Mom actually said that? Cassie's face shown with happiness. She always hated my math! Nah, Martin said. She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

Por te falar eu te assustarei e te perderei? mas se eu não falar eu me perderei, e por me perder eu te perderia.

What has to prove true for this to work?

The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is.

Oh, chocolate fudge I'll eat. What I can't swallow is fudging, as in fudging statistics, fudging results, fudging the truth. Mathematicians call it a fudge factor—putting an extra calculation into an equation just so it will work out as expected....It's what we law enforcement types call a scam.

The name is Asher Sutton.

But history was something that you couldn't trust. It was put together wrong, or copied wrong, or misinterpreted, or improved upon by a man with a misplaced imagination. Truth was so hard to keep, myth and fable so easy to breathe into a life that was more acceptable than truth.

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

There is nothing more terrifying than those who are certain that what they believe is undeniably true.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin

You've always got me" "Always?" "Didn't I just say so?" "Yes" "Am I liar? " "No." I lied.

What did it matter, anyway, he thought, whether this was a real place or a dream? It felt real, and that was all that mattered.

What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.

My books are my confessions.

If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in the tale, not because every fantasy was absolutely true but because no reality ever was.

She had long ago accepted that life was unfair. But why , when she'd accepted the bitter truth , did circumstance insist on rubbing her face in it?