Quotes About Truth

By asking questions based on a lie, it makes the lie a central part of national conversation.

Fascist attitudes take hold when there are no social anchors and when the perception grows that everybody lies, steals, and cares only about him- or herself.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that live invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

When acquaintances met him on the road, Wen said he couln't stop to discuss the Communists or Nationalists, Stalin, Truman or the weather, because he was composing a six-character eight line regulated verse in his head, and any variation in his path wuld push the words out of order. It was a lie. In fact, he was empty of poetry a d afraid of words.

It embarassed her ow, the way she bruned candles so unthikingly, gazing at words that seemed to hide ideas, or ideas inexpressible in words, how the sentences had carried her forwards like a river or a piece of music. And yet how close the truth had seemed back then. She had been twenty-four years old and she had fallen in love.

Was this a real story, Sparrow had wondered, or was it something like the book of records, an imagines survival?

They stood like that, his embrace still holding her, for ten seconds at most, during which she ignored the truth of the moment and allowed herself to savor the illusion of being cared for.

If spoken sincerely enough, and he now spoke most sincerely, lies became truths to the people hungry to hear them.

When we turn away from evidence that seems relatively straightforward to others we are using denial.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

How many of us would be granted pardon if our true hearts were known?

Most men do not know me for what I am." "Most men in my experience are fools," he said.

He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

If good Patroclus had been there he might have said, Sir, you are no true hero, no Heracles, no Jason. You speak no honest speeches from pure heart. You do no noble deeds in the gleaming sunlight. But I had met Jason. And I knew what sort of deeds could be done in the sun's sight. I said nothing.

True is what men believe, and they believe this of you.

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.

Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart? O

They never listened. The truth is, men make terrible pigs. In my chair by the hearth, I lifted my cup. "Sometimes," I told him, "you must be content with ignorance.