Quotes About Truth

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.