Quotes About Truth

The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.

what's hard to stomach, what's really, really difficult to absorb, is how good people, people you love—friends, parents, children, lovers—do truly terrible things. And how small lies become so big, little snowballs growing into deadly avalanches. And how turning a blind eye over time to seemingly small things can contribute to something so terribly heinous.

People see what they want to see, or what they are told to see, and once that picture starts to fill your mind, logic starts bending things to fit.

This is it. No more secrets. No more walls. The now is all we've got. I want truth. The whole truth. I'm no longer afraid of looking too deep. I'm ready no matter what I find.

Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.

I never did believe the rumors," Lacey said. "It's a way of filling a void. The human mind doesn't like unanswered questions. The instinct is to fill the unknown gaps with something, anything, even if it's bizarre. That's why closure is so important. Knowing, even when the truth hurts, you know?

The truth . . . sets you free." His breathing changes. He struggles to get his next words out. "It's . . . the secrets that fester. You . . . think you've buried them, gotten rid of them somehow, but they're like this damned cancer. The minute you're down, the second you grow tired, it starts to grow again,

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative.

Whatever it sounds like, it's not irrefutable proof he did this. And it could play with a jury. Klister is good. We'll need better.

How could he have wanted to marry her, make kids with her, a family, all the while knowing what she'd done?

Prosecution screwed up. I didn't. Hey, don't look at me like that, it's what I get paid the big bucks for—getting the law right." She reaches for her drink and leans back in her chair. "I'm no arbiter of morals. I just work within the letter of law.

There are two ways to be fooled, kultaseni, my little gold. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Correct," I say. "Amy Chan

Carl Jung said, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Women do not lie, my lord Dain," came a faintly accented voice from the door. "It merely seems so because they exist in another reality.

In the real, grown-up world, unicorns were more plentiful than Prince Charmings.

Istina, Dain to nije u to vrijeme na taj na?in vidio, ali muškarac nije u stanju išta vidjeti kako valja dok žena zariva svoje kandže u njega i trga ga na komadi?e

Što te onda zadržava ovdje? upitao je sebe. Koja te je mo?na sila ovamo dovukla, da glupavo zuriš poput mjese?inom o?aranog šteneta u ku?u samo zato jer je ona unutra? I koji su te to lanci držali ovdje, u iš?ekivanju da je samo na?as vidiš? Dodir. Poljubac. To je odvratno, rekao je sebi. I bilo je, ali bilo je istina, i on je to mrzio i mrzio je nju jer je to u?inila istinom.

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

When I hear the ignorant things people say about the war, about it all being over slavery, I want to shout that it isn't. It isn't that at all. Remember

Don't judge your feelings; notice them. Use them as your map. Don't be afraid of the truth.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to look at.