Quotes About Truth

Aber alles, was wir aussprechen, muss wahr sein, weil wir es empfinden. Da haben Sie mein poetisches Geständnis

Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!

What a live person can tell, being alive, would finally kill a dead person: flippancy. Therefore, one cannot, unfortunately, cling to the facts, which are too mixed up with chance and don't tell much.

Ich lernte viel an diesem Fall. Ich lernte, daß keine Lüge zu plump ist, als daß die Leute sie nicht glauben würden, wenn sie ihrem geheimen Wunsch, sie zu glauben, entgegenkommt.

Seguiré siendo testigo aun cuando no haya un solo ser humano que me pida mi estimonio

Ihr überhebt euch über alles und alle, das verstellt euch den Blick für das, was wirklich ist, auch dafür, wie ihr wirklich seid.

It's really ridiculous to assume that people are improved by hearing someone tell the truth about them.

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Faith and belief have nothing in common; they are as different as darkness and light.

Aucun individu ne pouvait posséder la justice; seule Maât, au corps aussi léger qu'une plume d'autruche, connaissait le poids des actes. Aux magistrats de la servir avec la tendresse d'un enfant pour sa mère. (...) - Qui êtes-vous donc, Pazair? - Un juge d'Égypte. (Justification du titre de la série)

La culpabilité de Qadesh l'amenait à se poser des questions auxquelles il ne devait pas répondre dans la précipitation et sans preuve. Un feu étrange, parfois insupportable, le tourmentait: pressé de découvrir la vérité, ne risquait-il pas de la dénaturer en brûlant les étapes?

Du siehst es ja an uns beiden, wie schwierig es ist, nein, wie unmöglich es ist, seine eigenen Eltern mit der Wahrheit zu konfrontieren. Und dann das Ganze einigermassen anständig hinter sich zu lassen.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

To put it bluntly, it is not the words of the Bible that are 'the way, the truth, and the life.' It is the person of Christ, to whom the Bible witnesses."[168]

The good we advocate is not to never judge anybody or anything. The good, rather, is to carefully and reasonably judge (weigh, appraise, discern and perhaps appropriately critique) all things in life – but always with an awareness of one's own fallibility, openness to learning and an interest in all moving closer to the truth.

In fact, during his life on earth, there were parts of God the Father's plan that Jesus himself did not know (Mark 13:32). As for us, God tells us what we need to know and instructs us to get on with living in light of what he does tell.

immutable laws of God Almighty

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.

And I know, with the newfuond clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my own parents were never happy together, and probably never would have been, whatever the circumstances

mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge