Quotes About Truth

People believe what is important for them to believe, and each person has his or her own reason, sometimes not even known to them.

Es fascinante comprobar hasta qué punto puede desintegrarse la razón cuando se enfrenta a una siniestra verdad ocasional y huye en desordenada retirada para mejor materializar un espejismo y construir defensas precarias contra el asalto de una realidad demasiado terrible!

I was with Billy Graham once, and he said that even if it turned out in the end that there is no God and the universe is empty, he would still have had a better life than me. I understand that. If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life.

Finally, there's a very different perspective one has when you view something as an innocent person rather than what a guilty man must go through. You relish the close looks and investigations rather than fear them, because you have nothing to hide. You're eager to take the lie detector test rather than ducking it.

Harriet, co my takiego z?ego zrobili?my? - Nigdy nie spojrzeli?my w twarz rzeczywisto?ci.

During the court procedure, I was so naïve. I assumed if you perjured yourself you went to jail, but it didn't seem to matter when people were exposed in court as liars.

I was ready to go to court and declare with total honesty that I never abused anyone in my life, and I was ready to defend that statement publicly.

It was the real world I was coming in contact with, and though it's real for everyone, it's more real for some than others.

amor es lo más parecido a las mentiras. Justifica u opaca a la razón, por derecho o torcido que parezca, no requiere de justificaciones, se reproduce a la menor provocación y exige todo el crédito del mundo. Además de que nadie o casi nadie puede vivir tranquilo en su total ausencia.

Si fuera campeón [...] ni inventaría historias porque entonces la historia sería yo.

Dime cuantas mentiras cuentas y te diré que tan esclavo eres.

No es acaso el amor una asombrosa, y a veces milagrosa, conjunción de patrañas? ¿No es exacto que menos por menos da más?

the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be: and if you observe, you will find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

But before I invite you into my society and friendship I will be open and sincere with you, and must lay down this as an established truth, that there is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labour. The

The tales told by the dead are fundamentally different, because their stories are not told to conceal their wounds.

Some humans claim to be made in God's image - what an insult to God. There are, however, in the northern reaches of our Earth, small tribes who can still remember that God looked like a bear.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.