Quotes About Truth

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

could anyone know when an actor was true and not acting?

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

No man can know God unless God has taught him that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.

The fantasy is that I could leave and be happier. The truth is I could leave and still be unhappy. - Alice

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Anything that consoles is fake.

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying (63)

Si un être était capable de mentir aux autres et de les rouler comme il peut se mentir à soi-même, il ferait une sensationnelle carrière d'escroc.

Was man glaubt, gibt es.

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying.