Quotes About Truth

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

Love has mass and volume. Put it into your life; it must displace something. As it has displaced my notion of what was good and important in the world, and substituted this: The knowledge that there is nothing more important than people willing to stand up for the truth of each other. The understanding of what it is to protect another fragile being. The understanding that I, too, will grow old.

a change of governance that could soon mean different heads lofted in punishment for the telling of different truths. She wanted to breathe the warning into all their ears: never let your true thought be known, for it is by truth that you are noosed and for truth burnt.

For in the biting hush of ink on paper, where truth ought raise its head and speak without fear, I have long lied.

two people: the one inside that was the truth, and the one outside that almost everyone believed him to be.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. It said to itself: 'If seeing's believing, then I don't want to see -- if silence is golden, it is also, in this case, very expedient.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Bilim adamlar? yüzy?llar boyunca yaln?zca insanlar?n güldüÄŸünü iddia etmiÅŸtir ve hayvanlar da bu yan?lg?ya kat?la kat?la gülmüÅŸtür. Hayvanlar yaln?zca iki ÅŸeyi yapamaz: Kendilerine yalan söylemek ve bir banka kurmak; bunlar?n d???nda her ÅŸeyi yapmaya yetenekleri vard?r.

Ä°nsanlar?n bir zamanlar güzelce örülmüÅŸ bir yalana, gerçeÄŸe dair kan?t ve belgelerden daha çok inand??? aç?kça ortadad?r

Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey, sahte kahramanlar?n ünlerinden daha kal?c? deÄŸildir.

bu öyküyü anlatmak istiyordum ama ne bizim dünyam?zda ne de düÅŸsel hayvanlar?n dünyas?nda, içinde bulunduÄŸu yaln?zl?k tehlikesinden kurtulmak için kendi kendine yalan söyleyen bir canl? bulabildim. Bunu yaln?zca insan yapabiliyordu.

El Ser es hablante antes que pensante.

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

Coincidence, Jim, is just a word superstitious people use to describe complex events that in truth are the mathematically inevitable consequences of a primary cause. - Michael quoting Mr. Spock

Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know.

There is no adult terror equivalent to what an innocent child experiences when first confronted with the truth that evil is not merely a figment of fairy tales, that it walks the world in countless forms, and that what it seeks most aggressively is the destruction of the innocent.

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.