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Quotes About Truth

Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
~ Ovid
I prate of ancient poets' monstrous lies, Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes.
~ Ovid
Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
~ Ovid
Crédule enfant, à quoi bon ces vains efforts pour saisir une fugitive apparence? L'objet de ton désir n'existe pas! ... Cette ombre que tu vois, c'est le reflet de ton image.
~ Ovide
Dunque suvvia, non confidare nell'aspetto che inganna; chiunque tu sia, stima qualcosa di superiore al corpo.
~ Ovídio
Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a gentleman lies deep in the heart of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.
~ Owen Wister
Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!
~ Owen Wister
No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.
~ Par Lagerkvist
What would life be like if it were not futile? Futility is the foundation upon which it rests. On what other foundation could it have been based which would have held and never given way? A great idea can be undermined by another great idea and, in due course, be demolished by it. But futility is inaccessible, indestructible, immovable. It is a true foundation and that is why it has been chosen as such.
~ Par Lagerkvist
Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.
~ Par Lagerkvist
Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess Sylvia Redbird — House of Night — Chosen
~ P. C. Cast
There is a deep power in words that speak the truth
~ P.C. and Kristin Cast
And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically.
~ P.C. Cast
I am not a bat. ~Rephaim
~ P.C. Cast
And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.
~ P.C. Cast
Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore. It's hard, but it's true.
~ P.C. Cast
Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth then clean up an honest mess P.C. Cast ( Grandma Redbird)... So wish People would understand this !!
~ P.C. Cast
There's power in the truth, just like there's power in making the right choice
~ P.C. Cast
How can you expect me to believe that?whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth
~ P.C. Cast
Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc
~ P.C. Cast
Si (...), divina. Y no divina por un error, divina por elección, por derecho.
~ P.C. Cast
could have almost convinced myself that everything was normal. But almost can be a really big word.
~ P.C. Cast
A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am not your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.
~ P.C. Cast
if the goddes can forgive her, can't we? I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead
~ P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast