Quotes About Truth

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.