Quotes About Truth

It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not.

Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are.

Farbigkeit und dieselbe Anziehungskraft herrschen kann wie in einem Bericht von Schandtaten. Wenn diese Annahme einigen Grund haben soll, so muß mir auch verstattet

Nitekim z?dd?yla gözümüze sokulmadan içinde bulunduÄŸumuz gerçek durumu asla göremiyor, hep fazlas?n? istemekten sahip olduÄŸumuzun deÄŸerini bilmeyi beceremiyoruz.

Das kann ich, sagte ich einfältiges Kind.

Strange to say, the English people were so pleased with this humorous sketch of themselves, that they bought eighty thousand copies of the work. Not often is a truth teller so rewarded.

and I must be allowed to say of both, I hope without breach of Charity, that they heard Voices that never spake, and saw Sights that never appear'd;

It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince

The emotional mind takes its beliefs to be absolutely true, and so discounts any evidence to the contrary. That is why it is so hard to reason with someone who is emotionally upset: no matter the soundness of your argument from a logical point of view, it carries no weight if it is out of keeping with the emotional conviction of the moment.

or assertive when it comes to expressing unpleasant truths in certain contexts. Finally, for the record I am not the "inventor" or "father" of the idea of emotional intelligence. I first saw the term proposed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer in a 1990 article, and some have suggested it was in use even before that date.

But it's December now, and the sky is bright, and it's clear to me. I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

Descubrí el reverso de la servilleta demasiado tarde, no cuando llegué a casa, ni cuando la guardé en la caja, sino cuando tenía el corazón destrozado y lloroso, cuando ya no era cierto.

I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

Si existe alguna película que, con elegancia e imaginación, profundice en las violentas y delicadas verdades sobre el corazón humano, este humilde crítico aún no la ha descubierto.

Te voy a explicar por qué rompimos, Ed. Te voy a contar en esta carta toda la verdad de por qué sucedió. Y la maldita verdad es que te quise demasiado.

Qué absolutamente erróneo es pensar que es de otra forma, que una caja de basura es un tesoro, que un chico que sonríe es sincero, que un momento agradable es una vida mejor.

He had seen himself naked and so had quite a few other people, although some of them do not remember.

There is no cure for illusions. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.

But illusions die hard, and the brighter they are the longer they take adying.

The first literary work in prose was history. And we call Herodotus (c.480–c.425 B.C.) the Father of History because his is the earliest surviving work in Greek prose that aimed to give literary form to an extended narrative of the past. The Greek historie means "inquiry" or the search for truth. Herodotus might also perhaps be called the Father of Prose, for until his time verse was still the normal vehicle for narratives of great events and heroes of the past.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey truth for now--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new truth, because that is the way science advances.