Quotes About Truth

Denial is always a form of confirmation.

Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

Das Kind redet weiter. Beim Reden bleibt etwas auf der Zunge liegen. Das Kind denkt sich, es kann nur die Wahrheit sein, die sich auf die Zunge liegt wie ein Kirschkern, der nicht in den Hals fallen will. Solange die Stimme beim Reden ins Ohr steigt, wartet sie auf die Wahrheit. Aber gleich nach dem Schweigen, denkt sich das Kind, ist alles gelogen, weil die Wahrheit in den Hals gefallen ist.

Today the grass listens when I speak of love. It seems to me that this word isn't honest even with itself.

Als er overal wordt gelogen, als je eigen ervaring zo tegengesteld is aan de officiële waarheid en op die manier van je wordt afgepakt, moet je wel verstommen.

Quando a gente é aquilo que finge ser, é castigada por isso, é como se fosse uma lei.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

How can something that is true in your heart and in your mind not be real?

Heywood Broun

It is my destiny to live forever, though my survival will bring final destruction to the human race. However, it is possible for me to be killed, and whether I live or die makes no great difference. In truth, death may be the only absolute freedom there is.

I've tried to change, tried to make friends by being cheerful all the time. Seems to have failed. Can't force it, I guess. [...] The truth was, he was tired of maintaining a phony character and trying to adapt himself to other people day after day.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.