Quotes About Truth

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.

Only cheats go back on a promise.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. Like: The fifth time's the charms. Like: Things between Zoe and me will be better once the baby's born. Like: One sip isn't going to kill me.

The brain can do a lot of things, Olive said, but it can't distinguish between what's really happening and what you're imagining. That's why scary movies scare you and why you cry at Nicholas Sparks books.

How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?

When you get down to it, though, explaining what you believe isn't all that easy. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things—that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact. I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand. Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way.

If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things- that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

It is amazing how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all.

You say I love you, but it's no longer like throwing open the windows of your heart. You say it the way you'd say It's Tuesday or I'm a brunette: matter-of-fact, a truth, a statement. Not an exaltation. Not a miracle. You wonder when the core of love changed from passion to compassion.

Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school? Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.

You might tell yourself that candor is the foundation of a relationship, but even that would be untrue. You are far more likely to lie to yourself, or your loved one, if you think it will keep the pain at bay.

It is amazing, I realize, how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

the quiet break of soul that comes when you realize that what looked like a rainbow was actually only a trick of the light.

You can invent any fiction and call it a life. Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

It is remarkable how events and truths can be reshaped, like wax that's sat too long in the sun. There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.

THE TRUTH and ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.