Quotes About Truth

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.

Beloved men, know that this is the truth:1 This world is in haste, and it approaches its end, and therefore always in the world The longer (it is), the worse (it gets) …

The simple truth is that ll languages change, all the time - the only static languages are dead ones.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.

We are what we are and the world is what it is

The world is not something to be understood. It is vanity, illusion to even try.

Mais il ne la trahirait pas, non, il ne la trahirait jamais. C'était bien peu, en vérité, mais d'un autre côté c'était beaucoup. L'existence d'un homme s'évaluait à ses paroles et à ses actes.

You would not have believed," he said. "You would always have doubted. We needed to grow older, you and I, for me to say this and you to hear it.

What is my sin, Blaise? Rudel was like that. A knife in the voice and in the thought behind. Quicksilver bright, insubstantial as a moon on water sometimes, then sharp and merciless and deadly as ... as an arrow dipped in syvaren. And the sharpness in his perceptions, as much as in anything else. A man from whom it was difficult to hide. For the sin, the transgression, lay— and Rudel knew it, they both knew it — in his having given Blaise exactly what he wanted.

heresies are not like clothing styles or beards, my lord, to go in and out of fashion by the season or the year." Alixana

I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

In a world so full of men who hurt the truth and get paid at so much for every groan we hear coming from it, it is a pleasant and dignified thing to spend some time at home making your very own lies for your very own bemusement.

Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.

Akkor változik meg a rendszer, amikor mások kezdenek el hazudni, mint akiket megszoktunk.