Quotes About Truth

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute. Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity. The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.

if you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that knowledge, even if he loves you (or seems to), even if he chooses you (or seems to), even if he promises to make you happy (which no one, not one person on the planet, can possibly do). And part of her, a big part of her, had obviously wanted to be the one who told them this. Because I am such a competent

I will simply ask: What is philosophy? What do the writings of the best known philosophers contain? What are the lessons of these friends of wisdom? To listen to them, would one not take them for a troupe of charlatans crying out in a public square, each from his own corner: Come to me. I'm the only one who is not wrong?

legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from one generation to the next.

A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it

El peligro de llevar un diario es que se exagera todo, uno esta al acecho, forzando continuamente la verdad

La función del escritor consiste en obrar de modo que nadie pueda ignorar el mundo y que nadie pueda ante el mundo decirse inocente

Ä°nan bana, her ÅŸeye kendini kand?rmaya çal??madan bakmak, en iyisidir.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth

Cuando se hayan acostado juntos, habrá que buscar otra cosa para ocultar el enorme absurdo de la existencia. Con todo ..., ¿es absolutamente necesario engañarse?

Cómo se puede mentir poniendo a la razón de parte de uno?

De improviso se me aparece la verdad: este hombre morirá pronto. Seguramente lo sabe; basta con que se haya mirado en un espejo; cada día se parece un poco más al cadáver que será.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials

I have tried, I said, but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow

As for her, I'd forgotten her for the moment. So I shall never understand why, suddenly, bewilderingly, I was certain that everything I had imagined to be truth was false. False. Only the magic and the dream are true—all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

Only the magic and the dream are true - all the rest's a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

How can I discover truth I thought and that thought led me nowhere. No one would tell me the truth.