Quotes About Truth

The present is an illusion.

It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.

Strip the veneer, and the world had moved only a couple of steps from the cave.

It's all just policy to you, isn't it?" Rebus said. "No right and wrong, legal and illegal, no fair and corrupt … just politics." "Listen to yourself, man," Sir Iain Hunter spat. "What are you, some Old Testament prophet? Who gives you the right to hold the scales?" He dug the tip of his umbrella into the ground

Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.

Soms is een gedachte dichter bij de waarheid, bij de werkelijkheid, dan een handeling. Je kunt alles zeggen, je kunt alles doen, maar een gedachte kun je niet veinzen.

What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy

I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying it happened.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

I don't rhyme about guns I ain't shot Hoes I ain't caught Or shit I ain't bought.

I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.

Your ego and reality sometimes fight each other. Reality is staring you in the face, but your ego doesn't want to accept it.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Burning and torture here lasts but a little while, but if I die with a lie on my soul, I shall be tortured forever. I am innocent.

Those who commit the murders write the reports

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.