Quotes About Truth

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace . . . Charlotte

When you have so much real drama in your life, it's hard to think about fiction.

Jacqueline Woodson

We opened our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies finally live outside of us.

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah

I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

What should he say to this woman that wouldn't entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

Think about some of the "simplest

We are all bundles of wild and warrantless convictions, especially about one another, and when one gets an accidental glimpse of someone else's candid mind, the sight is dread-inspiring. For his cozy chamber of horrors - and particularly his facts - are owned and enjoyed in complete faith.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

L'impossible et l'ineffaçable: le réel»

I mean that every word ought to carry the meaning that God has given to life (even though it may never refer to God). It ought to carry joy, hope, forgiveness, love, reconciliation, light, and peace in the order of truth. It contributes to the elucidation of the meaning of life.

Technical civilization has made the great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact.

People think that they have no right to judge a 'fact' - all they have to do is to accept it.

The two things cannot be separated. Truth must incarnate itself in reality; reality is empty without truth. If truth is the unfolding of meaning, this is the meaning of what we see to be real and not of an illusion or dream or phantom. This is how it is with us.

Propaganda is necessarily false, when it speaks of values, of truth, of good, of justice, of happiness-and when it interprets and colors facts and imputes meaning to them. It is true when it serves up the plain fact, but does so only for the sake of establishing a pretense and only as an example of the interpretation that it supports with that fact.

Dos y dos son cuatro, pero no a veces, ¡Sino siempre!