Quotes About Truth

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party.

Hay cosas que no pueden decirse, y es cierto. Pero esto que no puede decirse, es lo que se tiene que escribir.

La palabra es libertad.

talent, in both cases, is greatest when it coincides with a taste for truth—which, in short, is comforting.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

Comparez ces deux journaux quasi homonymes : The Times et Le Temps. Les intérêts, dont ils suivent, l'un et l'autre, les ordres, sont de nature semblable ; leurs publics, des deux côtés, aussi éloignés des masses populaires ; leur impartialité, également suspecte. Qui lit le premier, cependant, en saura toujours, sur le monde, tel qu'il est, infiniment plus que les abonnés du second. Même

Les méchants faits détruisent les belles théories.

Dans le cercle du pouvoir, il n'y a aucun secret, seulement des types qui font semblant de ne pas savoir.

Ce n'est pas facile de faire du doute son métier. On se brûle vite à côtoyer l'essentiel, et j'imagine qu'on se sent tellement soulagé quand on y renonce. Mais en refusant le doute, on est certain de se priver de la vérité.

For as Pascal warns us, "Be aware of knowledge that does not end in love.

It seems to me that if a little flower could speak, it would tell simply what God has done for it without trying to hide its blessings

The kingdom of God is within you."219 Jesus has no need of books or teachers to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of words.220 Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel that He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do.

Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.

Je croyais voir des choses invisibles aux yeux des autres, j'étais encore plus aveugle qu'eux.

Like every family, mine is dysfunctional. Here as well, we find two distinct groups: families who admit it, and families who don't and go on pretending.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying." Robert Evans

Ve? sam ti rekao da prestaneš da se bojiš rije?i. Važno je da koristimo prave rije?i.

Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.

Le pire mensonge est de se mentir à soi-même.