Quotes About Truth

Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate—or diminish—truth?

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.

don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!

Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the reason for their power?

Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.

Truth, like diamond, has many facets.

I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously.

Anything that makes us forget our true selves is a trap, princess—even something we love or define as beautiful.

Todas las historias tienen muchas versiones distintas. La versión elegida nos revela más acerca del narrador que acerca de la historia.

The truth is less glamorous than our imagination.

She taught me when to lie and when to speak the truth. She taught me to discover a man's hidden tragedies by reading the tremor in his voice. She taught me to close myself off from the sorrow of others so that I might survive. I understood that she was preparing me for the different situations that would appear in my life.

Krishna shrugged. "He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him—into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

I think I was most envious of him then. He had been in the presence of a great and blissful mystery. He had glimpsed the truth of existence that extended beyond this oscillating world of pleasure and sorrow. I lay awake all night, my soul hungering to know what he had known.

A volte mi chiedo se la realtà esiste davvero, se c'è varamente una natura delle cose, obiettiva e intatta. O se tutto ciò che ci accade è già modificato in anticipo dalla nostra immaginazione. Se sognando qualcosa gli diamo vita.

Dia yakin tentang itu. Bukankah itulah kebenaran? Kekuatan keyakinan seseorang merembes kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya--ke dalam tanah, udara, dan air-- sampai tidak ada yang lainnya." -Krishna

He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

But some things can't be told that way, I know that now. They can only be approached stealthily, from behind, like wild birds. And even then they catch your scent and take flight before you throw your net of words over them.

radio shock jocks were soon telling an audience eager to believe in their own righteousness and sound mental health that the impairment was fake.

In certain areas where it is not possible to check the validity of a certain concept, if somebody with a good track record states it, then one can consider that statement as "temporary truth" until one is in a position in the future to validate it.

What the eyes do not see can never pain the heart.

Come, let me know whether thou art a creature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

Ensi tote nuit se degenglent Cil qui de mal dire s'estrenglent, Mes tex dit sovant mal d'autrui Qui est molt pires de celui Que il blasme et que il despit.