Quotes About Truth

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

If you let a person talk long enough, you'll hear their true intentions.

Don't believe everything you hear.Real eyes,realize,real lies.

Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Yes, God is real.

If you lie to yourself you will lie to God too.

People often say that the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try to avoid it.

My savvy grandfather, who owned a juke joint, always carried a straight razor in his pocket, and was nobody's fool, saw the truth behind Emmitt's big-man act. He knew he was a fake.

A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

Sí señor, yo ya soy poquito cristiano, dijo él, porque ya saber yo un poquito mentir; otro día saber yo mucho mentir y seré yo mucho cristiano

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.

Not answers, but the ending of questions, is the important thing.

I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

they may produce a reproduction which differs as little as possible from external reality

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.