Quotes About Truth

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

E, com um pouco mais de sinceridade, tornaríamos a vida mais fácil para todos.

O mal é que estou bastante propenso a me deixar impressionar, a sentir eu próprio as crenças de outrem e a nem sempre questionar o fundo de verdade que possa existir no absurdo.

Acabo de ler O ano terrível de Victor Hugo. Nele há esperança, mas... esta esperança está nas estrelas. Acho isto verdadeiro e bem dito e belo, aliás acredito nisto de bom grado.

In the midst of life we are near death, that is a phrase which touches each one of us personally, it is a truth we see again confirmed in what you tell me about Carolien van Stockum, and formerly we saw it in another member of the same family. It has touched me, and with all my heart I hope she may recover. Oh! what sorrow, what sadness and suffering there is in the world, in public as well as in private life.

Mesmo esta vida artística, que sabemos não ser a verdadeira, parece-me tão vívida e seria uma ingratidão não contentar-se com ela.

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

I do not say - far, very far be it from me to say - that I myself have the rayon blanc, but I am not ashamed to say that it exists, this White Light - and that I seek it, and only this do I consider simplicity.

without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.

If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility.

Jill was young and untried, but she knew the fundamental truth about women—that love can torment them even as it gives them the moon and the stars to play with.

There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air.

Trust one who has tried.

Veiling truth in mystery.

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

It takes great courage to be honest when the honesty is pointed at yourself.

People are easily deceived—their good and kindly hearts believe it all implicitly, without ever remembering the rule about hearing both sides before we form an opinion.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.