Quotes About Truth

In fact, in her experience, the more honest a person seemed, the more dishonest they usually were.

Go away. I told you, I'm not interested." She looked from his lap to his face. "Your nose is growing too.

What's the matter, Garrett? Am I getting a little too close to the truth?" "What you're getting a little too close to is a spanking.

I'm going to say [to George W Bush], 'And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.' And if he even starts to say 'freedom and democracy,' I'm going to say, 'bullshit.' You tell me the truth. You ell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died so you can spread the cancer of Pax America, imperialism, in the Middle East (2005, Voices of a People's History of the US)

Choose reality, Sarah. It's the only place where strength and faith can begin to work.

Perception is reality. Media is omnipresent. Therefore, he who controls the media controls perception, and therefore controls reality TV, and therefore controls reality. Take

Naive enough to set off in pursuit of Truth, I had explored - to no avail - any number of disciplines. I was beginning to be confirmed in my skepticism when the notion occurred to me of consulting, as a last result, Poetry: who knows? perhaps it would be profitable, perhaps it conceals beneath its arbitrary appearances some definitive revelation ... Illusory recourse! Poetry had outstripped be in negation and cost me even my uncertainties ...

Bestaat er een leven dat niet doordrongen is van levensnoodzakelijke vergissingen? Bestaat er een helder, transparant leven, zonder vernederende wortels, zonder verzonnen motieven, zonder mythen die uit begeerte zijn ontstaan?

Het is omdat we allemaal oplichters zijn dat we elkaar verdragen. Iemand die het liegen niet aanvaardt zal de grond onder zijn voeten zien verdwijnen: we zijn biologisch gedwongen tot het onjuiste.

Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.

Hij is zacht, goed, subliem, rechtvaardig. Maar wie herkent zich in die mengeling die ruikt als naar transcendentie verbannen rozenwater? Een wezen zonder valsheid mist diepgang en mysterie; het verbergt niets. Alleen onzuiverheid is een kenteken van realiteit.[...] Omdat hij overloopt van leven, heeft de Duivel geen altaar: de mens herkent zich te veel in hem om hem te aanbidden.

Para usted que ya no la tiene, la libertad es todo. Para nosotros que sí, es meramente una ilusión.

JUAN 1John 1 1 Lo que era desde el principio, lo que hemos Oído, lo que hemos visto con nuestros ojos, lo que contemplamos y palparon nuestras manos tocante al Verbo de vida 2 --la vida fue manifestada, y la hemos visto; y os testificamos y anunciamos la vida eterna que estaba con el Padre y nos fue manifestada--,

Quién dicen los hombres que soy yo?

Ourika, beware; sometimes reserve leads to duplicity.

Without honesty we can build nothing at all. Trust rests upon honesty's foundation, as does affection and even love.

Naught is simple about the truth. There is the truth of what happened and the truth of what I believe happened and the truth of what I still remember to have happened. And that does not embrace the truths perceived and remembered by others, let alone whether any of us witnessed the fullness of the truth in the first place.

this would be no easy victory. "In truth, Alexander, you are so demanding these days that a saint would defy you, and do so simply for the pleasure of thwarting your schemes. You

Don't trust anyone. That's what the cards are warning you, Jenna. Everyone is lying

It's hard to know what has become folklore and what is reality. But don't all myths stem from some semblance of fact?

The truth wouldn't set her free. Far from it. The truth was a Pandora's box and she had to keep the lid firmly closed

Where there's a secret,' she says, 'there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.

She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.