Quotes About Truth

Lumbly'nin sözleri yeniden akl?na geldi: 'Bu ülkenin nas?l bir yer olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenmek istiyorsan?z demiryolunu kullan?n derim ben hep. H?zla giderken d??ar? bakarsan?z, Amerika'n?n gerçek yüzünü görürsünüz.' Åžaka yapm??t? adam, demek ki. Yolculuklar? s?ras?nda pencereden bak?nca yaln?zca karanl??? görmüÅŸtü Cora, hep de öyle olacakt?.

Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. The

Is this the truth of our historic encounter?

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

There is always room for at least two truths.

I'm only telling you on the truth, he said. If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

In the summer quiet. Just be. Joshua liked the Beatles, used to listen to them in his room, you could hear the noise even through the big headphones he loved. Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth. The person we know at first, [she thinks] is not the one we know at last.

The overexamined life... It's not worth living.

Are you saying I'm a liar? --No I'm just, like, speaking.

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

There are those of us who haven't yet told our stories, or refuse to tell them, and so we become them: we hide away inside the memory until we can no longer stand the shell or the shock - perhaps I must tell it before it is forgotten or becomes like everything else, something else.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got from the hard, cold truth—the filth, the war, the poverty—was that life could be capable of small beauties.

It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty.

The truth of the matter is that the light at the end of the tunnel generally belongs to the pharmaceutical companies.

When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it.

When a great truth gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. She could see an orchestra in him, a whole range of instruments and sound. His voice was loud and booming. It is bound to go on until it becomes the thought of the world.