Quotes About Truth

Her trut meant more to him than he could have possibly imagined. But how the hell was he supposed to keep this light when everything about it felt more like... everything?

because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true.

But even though she's started the game in the first place, she no longer wanted to play. Somewhere along the way, her heart had flipped on her. She could pretend to be a bad girl all she wanted. It was only an illusion. The truth was, she needed more than sex. And that really pissed her off about herself.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

Her heart just about stopped. "Us?" she asked in shock. "There is no us. There's a you. And there's a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it's not real." "It could be," he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein

For more than four hundred years we nurtured the belief (should that, perhaps, be faith?) that evidence-based investigation meeting scientific standards of rigor would reveal the true mechanism of nature. and yet when the mechanisms of nature were revealed to be quantum mechanisms, the worlds of science and philosophy were set on a collision course. instead of truth and comprehension, we got deeply unsettling questions about what we can ever hope to know about the world.

But it would be naïve to think that this extraordinary success has drawn us ever closer to comprehending a reality of things-in-themselves

Wrong teaching–specifically religious doctrines–nullifies the power of the Word of God and makes it of no effect.

Avoidance is like feeding a monster that will come alive and plan a future attack, but this monster will lose power when it is brought out into the light.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

You can be as sincere as hell and still be wrong.

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here.

Billy squinted at me. Why are you letting them go? Because they're real. How do you know? The one I was holding crapped on my hand.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Strength is the first virtue," Alera said. "That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately meaningless.

Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.