Quotes About Truth

Perversos y retorcidos son los caminos de la mente humana- recitó Jane-. Pinocho fue un idiota intentando convertirse en un niño de verdad. Estaba mucho mejor con su cabeza de madera.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

You're just Ender in drag, doing his Valentine bit. You come off the stage and there's nothing there, it comes off like makeup and a costume.

La ignorancia y la mentira no pueden salvar a nadie. El conocimiento lo hace.

That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

How do you know there wasn't something that he touched kindly? Someone who loved him, who was blessed by his love? Destroyed everything he touched – that's a lie that can't truthfully be said of any human being who ever lived.

Bu, Ay bu gece istikametini deÄŸiÅŸtirip, ters yönde hareket edecek demeye benzemez, çünkü bu durumda ay?n söylediklerinizi iÅŸitmesi gerekir. Fakat Bu k?z kolay lokma, ya da Åžu adam bir h?rs?z, derseniz, o kiÅŸinin size inan?p inanmamas?n?n bir önemi kalmaz, diÄŸer herkes sözünüze inanmaya ve kar??lar?ndaki kiÅŸiye haklar?da söylenen ÅŸeyler doÄŸruymuÅŸ gibi davranmaya baÅŸlar.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.