Quotes About Truth

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

La honestidad no es algo que haces; la honestidad es quién eres».

Se necesitan dos personas para decir la verdad, una para hablar y la otra para escuchar».

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.

Abraham Lincoln dijo: "El carácter era como un árbol y la reputación como su sombra. La sombra es lo que pensamos de él; el árbol era lo verdadero".

Truth does not become more or less true, whether those who know it are many or few.

She said, "Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don't love me, and I'll go." He stared at her. "Miss, I do not love you." "Don't give me that rot! I'm coming with you, and that's final!" "Daphne, you just said that if I said…" "That doesn't count! I said look me right in the eye! You were staring at my nose!

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?

Like all bitter men, Flint knew less than half the story and was more interested in unloading his own peppery feelings than in learning the truth.

Like most incurable fibbers, she had an extravagant regard for the truth, which she expressed by sending up signals meant to indicate that she was lying.

Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth? He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.

They had come to praise him. It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life! the doctor said. The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. Oh, we thought, signore, he said, that you were merely a poet.

I told her everything I could think of, even about my father being buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.

The neurologist and psychologist Maurice Nicoll told how he had once asked his headmaster about a passage in the Bible, and after he had listened to the answer for some time, he realized that the man had no idea what he was talking about. What I admire about Nicoll is that he made this discovery when he was only ten. It took me another forty-five years before the penny dropped: very, very few people have any idea what they are talking about.

The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right

The reality is one thing; the name; with all is strange associations, is only an outward shell of such reality.

The hardest battle of our lives is between what we think we know, and what we really feel.

What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.

Telling lies to protect someone you love only destroys them in the end.

It's hard to admit that the person you love doesn't love you. So, you hold on until you're ready to accept the truth.

Take a bite of love, but live in no misconception that your heart will escape pain of separation.