Quotes About Truth

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The truth gets uglier the longer you try to hold it down.

I'm not a prince. God, never hold me in that light. You'll only be disappointed." His touch gentles, even his gaze goes hard with intensity. "I'm not a good man, Avery. But I am the one who loves you.

the quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

Wanting you this way is the last thing I should be doing, Brynne. But I'm not going to stand here and lie to you by pretending there's nothing between us." He caught her face in his palms. "I'm not going to stand here and let you lie about that either.

You can shovel your bullshit however deep you want it, but in the end, it's still bullshit.

Lore? Tell me what Sin said about you being tortured wasn't true,' He didn't look at her as he moved toward the bathroom. 'It wasn't true.' 'You're lying.' 'You told me to.

Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.

The truth has been abused under every Communist regime, due to the fact that no higher authority or greater good is recognized than the state itself.

I hate to distort history by saying the wrong thing. But that's just what happens with time. Your own thought in your mind how it happened 30 years later, but it really didn't happen that way.

Here's the truth about organic writing: It's just story planning by another name.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.

That last part wasn't true, and he sort of knew it, but if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?

As far as I can see, nobody's got The Truth, The Answer, or The God.

Because, when you got right down to the real nitty-gritty, I didn't really want to be anything other than what I am.

Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people.

Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.

There is only one Long Day's Journey into Night. There is only one Death of a Salesman