Quotes About Truth

It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

And you can't force someone to believe, not even with better and louder and more virtuous arguments, not even with irrefutable evidence

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were all untrue, were bad not-truths, even, but he nodded, and tried to convince himself to be convinced, tried to believe her, because he knew that the origin of the story is always an absence and he wanted to live among presences.

I asked her, Are you an optimist or a pessimist? She looked at her watch and said, I'm optimistic. Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. Why do beautiful songs make you sad? Because they aren't true. Never? Nothing is beautiful and true. She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, You sound just like Dad.

I have made efforts to make you appear as a person with less anxiety, as you have commanded me to do on so many occasions. This is difficult to achieve, because in truth you are a person with very much anxiety. Perhaps you should be a drug user.

I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. p. 233

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

Do you know that I am the Gypsy girl and you are Safran, and that I am Kolker and you are Brod, and that I am your grandmother and you are Grandfather, and that I am Alex and you are you, and that I am you and you are me? Do you not comprehend that we can bring each other safety and peace? When we were under the stars in Trachimbrod, did you not feel it then? Do not present not-truths to me. Not to me.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.

Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him more pissed, because being less stupid than one's parents is repulsive, like taking a gulp from a glass of milk that you thought was orange juice.

She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.

It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Peki güzel ÅŸark?lar neden üzüyor seni? Gerçek olmad?klar? için. Hiç mi? Hiçbir ÅŸey hem gerçek hem de güzel deÄŸildir.

The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued.

Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!

Cartile sunt pentru aceia care nu au vieti adevarate.

Zij sprak openhartig over de mishandelingen door haar vader, en liet hem de beurse plekken zien die zelfs een huid niet kan vertonen.

You do not have to present not-truths to me, Sasha. I am not a child. (But I do. That is what you always fail to understand. I present not-truths to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.) I do not understand, I said. (I understand.) You do not? he said. (You do.) ... I am not a bad person, he said. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time. I know this, I said. (Even if you were a bad person, I would still know you are a good person.)

That's not true, I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me and be understood.

Ci promise che tutto sarebbe andato bene. Anche se ero una bambina sapevo che non sarebbe andato così. Ma questo non faceva di mio padre un bugiardo. Faceva di lui mio padre.

Lo so che mi hai chiesto di non cambiare gli sbagli perché hanno un suono buffo, e il buffo è l'unico modo veritiero di raccontare una storia triste.