Quotes About Truth

not as if they won't know the truth soon

Wasn't there something inherently selfish about confessions, anyway? The guilty party's chance to purge their guilt. Never mind that another person got flattened in the process. Ignorance was bliss. No pain in not knowing.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People are almost never what you think. Don't even try to figure them out. Something Andy once read in a magazine. Turns out it's true.

make expectation parallel with reality.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say -Pauline in "In the Presence of a Clown

Edvard: Du har levat i en konstgjord värld, insnärd i konstgjorda känslor. Jag måste lära dig och dina barn att leva i verkligheten. Det är inte mitt fel att verkeligheten är ett helvete

Sécate las lágrimas y mira el fin con serenidad. Hubieras gozado más de la vida despreocupándote de la eternidad, pero es demasiado tarde. En este último instante goza al menos del prodigio de vivir en la verdad tangible antes de caer en la nada.

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WHO it is that constructs the realities is NOT at all clear.

a brief aside, consider the wide-ranging philosophical importance of the following maxim: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Yet it was precisely these points which marked out van Gogh's own view of beauty, based on the people in his environment, who were admittedly not beautiful, but who embodied his idea of truth.

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal

Quand je lis quelque chose je suis frappée tout de suite par peut-être une certaine vérité dedans n'est ce pas ? Quelque chose de sincère, et c'est pas nécessaire que c'est tragique ou un drame ca peut être aussi une comédie mais il faut avoir quelque chose de vraie.

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

Nie ma nic za darmo. Darmowa jest tylko ?mier?, cho? i ona kosztuje przecie? ?ycie.

The fact is, my dear friend, love of the truth is higher and purer than any other. The truth, however poor and naked it may be, is more lovable and more holy than any sumptuous, dressed-up falsehood. And thus every time I'm able remove some flounce or frill from you, my heart leaps in my breast and a triumphal crown girds my head. Blessed be that philosophy that teaches us that though we be mortal, weak and unhappy, we can be great in equality, liberty and love!

Similarly, to the family of a seriously ill person, sometimes plainly stating, "Your father is dying," can be a gift in the most difficult of times.

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.