Quotes About Truth

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

But you know, the word ignorance has an even more important word at its heart: ignore. And I don't think it's right to ignore the truth any longer.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though that knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever? I am about to give her my opinion when Eliza is

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My

Perhaps he'd always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.

Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.

today to find whether or not

kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. *

Some feel that because they lived, it's their responsibility to tell the world what happened, so it won't happen again, and so people won't forget. Others believe that the only way to go on with the rest of our lives is to act as if it never happened.

Religion often gets in the way of God.' – BONO, AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST, FEBRUARY 2, 2006

Truth expands until it can choke you.

The papers were caught between our bodies, a wedge to drive us apart, like any other lie.

Truth vibrates when it's drawn across the bow of pain.

There is a commotion as the reporters vie for Eric's sound bite. Gradually, the crowd falls back to allow Emma Wasserstein passage. She shakes Eric's hand, and Chris's, and then leans forward to give Eric's briefcase back to him. But as she does, she comes close enough to whisper to me. Mr. Hopkins, she says, a truth meant only for me, I would have done it, too.

gente se ha inventado todo tipo de formas de hacer que las cosas parezcan diferentes de lo que son en realidad. Una habitación puede sumirse en una noche artificial. El Botox transforma los rostros de las personas en algo que no son. El TiVo te hace creer que eres capaz de congelar el tiempo, o al menos de reordenarlo a tu antojo.

no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it

I don't think religions are based on lies, but I don't think they're based on truths, either. I think they come about because of what people need at the time that they need them. Like the World Series player who won't take off his lucky socks, or the mother of the sick child who believes that her baby can sleep only if she's sitting by the crib – believers need, by definition, something to believe in.

When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

Some feel that because they lived, it's their responsibility to tell the world what happened, so it won't happen again, and so people won't forget. Others believe that the only way to go on with the rest of their lives is to act as if it never happened.

I'm not going to fit into that English courtroom. I'm going to stand out, with how I dress, and how I think, because I'm not English. I don't know about murder and witness and juries, but I do know how to fix things in my life when they're messed up. If you make a mistake and repent, you're forgiven. You're welcomed back. If you lie, and keep lying, there won't be a place for you. -Katie, Plain Truth

Think of it as a parallel universe. But maybe it's the real one, and we're in a dream.

It's not as if I will be the first leader who ever turned her back on the truth because her people needed the comfort of fantasy. If everyone shared my sense of loss we would be paralyzed, doomed. I have to put it behind myself literally. Live only with the present and the future. We have no real past. We live in a hollow rock surrounded by nothing. Outside of this bubble of life, night that goes on forever. But this is true: it's only in the night that you can see the stars.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.