Quotes About Truth

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

God's word is a God sword.

God's Word had the power to light our way and to clear the debris that had covered the path so we can walk in it.

God's Word has the power to light our way and to clear the debris that has covered the path so we can walk in it.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

Writers of memoir are storytellers, and the point of a personal story is to make a truth that resonates for you, that closes the experience around a narrative and brings it to completion.

There's no rewind, or erasing, or unmaking. The things that happened, they are you, you are them. You can escape, but you can't get away. Just the way it is.

When you do choose to speak," she told me, "speak truths.

We human beings have always known that our eyes reveal our true nature. It's nearly impossible to hide emotions in them. "Look me in the eye and tell me the truth," the questioner will say to the accused, because both parties know that while words can mask the truth, our eyes will invariably reveal it.

Remember What Mama used To Say : " You Cant Tell a Book By Its Cover

Stories,' she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

But nothing was often everything in forensics. Nothing could often be the answer to the whole bloody thing.

Poppy's hands fall on to the book. 'Stories', she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?" "Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.

A life without secrets and lies was a simple path to walk

Yes. I agree. We are done here. I am sorry to have upset you, Miss Jones. But what we mustn't forget, whatever the truth of this situation, a young woman was killed in that house. Violently killed. This must remain the focus and I will keep making people cry for as long as it takes to find out who did it and why.

At thirty-two years of age, Rachel tried not to dwell too much on the fact that her entire adult existence was a mirage.

But she needed to write it down to make it into a story instead of the truth about her life.