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Quotes About Truth

People who have kids are constantly boring the shit out of people who haven't. But they can't stand it if you tell them the truth – when I look at your life it makes me want to do anything but.
~ Virginie Despentes
Porn is somehow supposed to be real--something we never expect of film, by its very nature a technique of illusion. We expect porn to show us exactly what we dread about it: the truth of our desire.
~ Virginie Despentes
Il ne va pas crever tout seul. La petite innocente jolis yeux, il va lui montrer d'un seul coup, à quoi ressemble son monde à lui.
~ Virginie Despentes
Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.
~ Virginie Despentes
Socrates […] is recorded as having said, sagely and with the greatest acuteness, that men's breasts should have windows in them and be open so that their thoughts would not remain concealed but open for inspection.
~ Vitruvius
Sia chiaro, per me ragione significa che io ho ragione.
~ Unknown
Light is knowledge , Knowledge is love , Love is freedom.
~ Vittorio Storaro
Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven
~ Vivekananda
We see then, in the study of Raja Yoga no faith or belief is necessary. Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself—that is what it teaches us. For, truth requires no prop to make it stand.
~ Vivekananda
The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.
~ Vivian Gornick
She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?
~ Vivian Gornick
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
~ Vivien Leigh
We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.
~ Unknown
Ni? ni resni?no, vse je dovoljeno.
~ Unknown
Nada es verdadero, todo está permitido!
~ Unknown
?nsanlar?n mutluluk, a?k, sevinç olarak adland?rd??? ?eylerin hepsinin yanl?? faraziyeler üzerine kurulu yanl?? hesaplar?n bir birikimi oldu?unu ke?feden herkes, kalbinde sadece korkunç bir bo?luk bulacakt?r.
~ Unknown
Rien n'est vrai, tout est permis. Et nous qui tenons entre nos mains tous les fils du rouage, nous, nous conserverons nos dernières pensées pour nous.
~ Unknown
Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.
~ Unknown
Nothing is true; everything is permitted
~ Unknown
tereddüt içinde bocalamak ve ebedi bir aray?? içinde olmaktansa, sa?lam bir dala tutunmay? tercih etmi?lerdi. Sadece cahil halk de?il, okumu? ve bilgili ki?iler de ula??labilen bir yalan?, ula??lamaz bir gerçe?e ye? tutuyorlard?.
~ Unknown
Kitleler her zaman böyledir. Belirsizlikten her zaman korkarlar, bu yüzden aç?k bir yalan? ula??lmaz gerçeklere ye? tutarlar.
~ Unknown
Incluso la creencia en Dios, ya que de ella se trata, no es verdaderamente una creencia completa sino que implica un conjunto de representaciones relativas a lo que viene después de la vida; en consecuencia, a algo sobrenatural, a una escatología; y es por ello que una religión que no anunciara nada a los hombres en lo concerniente a una vida ulterior no sería una verdadera religión.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
~ Vladimir Lenin
One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.
~ Vladimir Lenin