Quotes About Truth

The first person we have to tell the truth to is ourselves. If we are not going to be honest with ourselves, there is little possibility that we will treat anyone else differently.

On n'a rien trouvé, on n'a rien inventé. Nous ne pouvons rien savoir sinon que nous ne savons rien. C'est là le degré suprême de la sagesse humaine. (Guerre et Paix, livre deuxième, 2ième partie, ch. I)

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

L'homme a conscience d'être un Dieu et il a raison parce que Dieu est en lui. Il a conscience d'être un cochon et il a également raison parce que le cochon est en lui. Mais il se trompe lorsqu'il prend le cochon pour un Dieu.

Boga je teško spoznati, ali to ne zna?i da ga nema, ve? je to znak Njegovog Veli?anstva, a naše slabosti. Bog je kao ?ista voda koju bismo htjeli da popijemo; a ne možete ?istu vodu naliti u prljav sud, pa onda suditi o njenoj ?isto?i

Somehow in all of this we are still capable of finding some illumination, some truth, some place where we step out of ourselves, where we are ecstatic, where we have an ecstatic, visionary realization.

Invariably, identical facts provoke starkly different interpretations.

crucial moments of choice most of the business of choosing is already over." Willing is not conscious resolve, but rather being true to what one loves or sees.

Whatever he thought he was, it was painfully clear he was not.

The literal is always abstract ? because reality is so much more than we can ever know or experience or imagine.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

I understand why we do that now. It's a help, not a threat. It's something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

Perception and reality are two different things.

Do not believe everything you think or that you believe.

Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham

Risk management is the explicit quantitative declaration of uncertainty. But in some corporate cultures, people aren't allowed to be uncertain. They're allowed to be wrong, but they can't be uncertain. They are obliged to look their bosses and clients in the face and lie rather than show uncertainty about outcomes. Uncertainty is for wimps.

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

It is that bizarre thing. If I had kids, I, of course, would tell them there's Santa, but it's also just an odd feeling to be blatantly lying to kids.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.