Quotes About Truth

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

The only lie I ever told you is that I liked you when I already knew I loved you.

I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.

They lost the hope of a better relationship with him when he died. They don't want to remember the truth right now." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.

Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future.

What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.

Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong