Quotes About Truth

A shroud lies ahead and behind many truths. Reality is (sometimes) a glass wall no ray of light reaches.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

The big truth, maybe the only truth, is that we don't know anything for sure.

The power of thought able to search the Universe for truth is a fragile equilibrium between secretions of a few vital glands.

They haven't written the books to teach us all we want to know about our existence and us. And a large number of what is written is largely based on the conventional and the imaginary.

We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late.

Marianne Faithfull

What is our innocence,what is our guilt? All arenaked, none is safe.

Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes. Know that it will be there when it says, "I shall be there when the wave has gone by.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

La ley del gusto termina en la mediocridad, en una vida que dejó pasar las oportunidades de llenar este mundo de belleza, de verdad y de amor[6].

veces nos da miedo enfrentarnos con la realidad de nuestra alma. Decía Goethe: «¿Conocerme a mí mismo? Si lo hiciera, saldría corriendo espantado».

Hay que respetar las legítimas ansias de verdad: el hombre tiene obligación grave de buscar al Señor, de conocerle y de adorarle, pero nadie en la tierra debe permitirse imponer al prójimo la práctica de una fe de la que carece; lo mismo que nadie puede arrogarse el derecho de hacer daño al que la ha recibido de Dios»

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life. I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife.

I spoke with the assurance of a young woman who thought her experience with natural history and ad hoc education in other subjects more than qualified her to hold forth on topics she knew nothing about at all. The truth is that any such comparison is far more complicated and doubtful than I presented it that evening; but it is also true that no one in my audience knew any more about it than I did, and most of them knew less. My assertion was therefore allowed to stand unchallenged. For

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

I wish it could have been otherwise. But in the end … this is part of our past, whether we are proud to admit it or not. Whatever our place is to be in the world, it must be a place we can claim with honesty, not one we slip into on the basis of a lie.

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

Mine udgydelser i notesbogen bestod af brudstykker af mit liv, som jeg arrangerede efter forgodtbefindende, jeg lod mig føre hvor som helst hen, jeg gennemlevede øjeblikke, som jeg aldrig havde oplevet i virkeligheden, men som jeg fantaserede mig til, jeg sad ikke i sandhedens gabestok som henne hos lægen.

Jeg havde lyst til at sige til dem: 'Nej, jeg er ikke tosset og har aldrig været det. Eller måske er jeg tosset, men så er i det også.

AUNT SHADIE: I see you - and don't worry, you're not white. ROSE: I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English. AUNT SHADIE: White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.

The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies

My aim throughout is to let facts speak for themselves. If they seem strange, unreal, even impossible, I can only say that the things of the invisible world must always appear so to those whose thoughts and desires are centred on this life only.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.