Quotes About Truth

There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the voices of dead poets out into the sun.

In writing, we cannot help but wonder whether our work will help people or harm them. The truth can never harm. That is certain.

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75 percent right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100 percent right? Whoever says he's 100 percent right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.

To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.

You will find what you want to find.

How can there be any secrets, we are all the same organisms? How can there be any secrecy, when everything is known to all of us?

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

The real is the imaginative failed.

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

contemporary reports are not always completely accurate and reminiscences are not necessarily flawed.

Only because our being and truth already belong to God can we avoid the nominalist temptation, where God arbitrarily and unexpectedly appears as a sheer act of will reversing creaturely being and commandeering our language miraculously from the outside such that nothing identifiably human remains of it.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

If I was president of the Slime Committee, I'd make it easier to come clean about shit. If coming clean is what you're supposed to do, then it should be made more fucken accessible, I say.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. C. S. Lewis

I like you to be happy and carefree, but... but nobody ought to live in a fool's Paradise.

She should know all there was to know - all that I knew, and, what was more important still, she should know that there was no more to know. Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination like Clementina's.

Were you really at school with Mums?' she inquired, fixing Zilla with wide-open eyes. 'Mums said you were—but you look much too old.' Zilla was displeased and showed it; she was not inured to home-truths delivered by the young and innocent

Whenever you look back and say, "If," you know you're in trouble. There's no such thing as "if." The only thing that counts is what really happened.

He understood why she kept him away, why they had connected so strongly, why he couldn't forget her. None of this made sense in traditional terms. This wasn't something he could share with anyone. This was his truth. This was something he knew inherently to be true. He understood this in his soul.

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.