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Quotes About Truth

It is sometimes hard to recognized real love. So much nonsense it talk about love and so much nonsense is written about it that it is sometimes hard to recognize the real thing.
~ Marion Chesney
It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.
~ Unknown
Scandalous stories of extramarital affairs and abortions persisted in circulating, but that was largely because she made no attempt to deny the rumors, since they were true.
~ Unknown
The Goddess is the unspeakable wisdom that grows into the very cells of the body. She lives with this sacramental truth at her center: the beauty and the horror of the whole of life are blazing in Her love. She is dancing in the flames.
~ Marion Woodman
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Never, ever lie, unless it's to spare someone's feelings or to weasel out of something you really don't want to do, but only if not doing that something will not result in bodily or even psychic harm to another human being, unless that human being is exceptionally mean in which case minor psychic harm is permissible"—my
~ Marisa de los Santos
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.
~ Marisha Pessl
May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.
~ Marisha Pessl
As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.
~ Marisha Pessl
Fiksie verg nou eenmaal 'n gedeeltelike verdoeseling of vervalsing van feite, anders is dit nie meer fiksie nie.
~ Unknown
If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.
~ Marjorie Garber
Words are reflections. What we speak comes back to us. I prefer being told the truth, so I tell the truth. Within reason.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
I should have known this would happen. But I got happy, and soft. I forgot that secrets never keep.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
The Gospel of John tells us that the Word who was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of glorious grace and truth, was also the Word through whom all things- all phenomena in nature, all capacities for fruitful interaction, all the kinds of beauty- were made. To honor that Word as he deserves to be honored,evangelicals must know both Christ and what he has made.
~ Unknown
What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.
~ Unknown
Thus was beauty sent from heaven--the lovely mistress of truth and good in this dark world.
~ Mark Akenside
Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.
~ Mark Akenside
Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.
~ Unknown
War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.
~ Unknown
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
~ Mark Batterson
We usually hear what we want to hear and turn a deaf ear to everything else. But remember the package deal? If we don't listen to everything God has to say, we eventually won't hear anything He has to say. And we probably need to hear most what we want to hear least. But this I know for sure: His tone of voice is always loving. Sometimes it's tough love in the form of rebuke or discipline, but it's loving, nonetheless.
~ Mark Batterson
You've heard the adage: "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it." Here's a fresh take on that old truth: God said it, I've circled it, and that settles it.
~ Mark Batterson
And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.
~ Mark Batterson
To believe that God speaks only through the Bible is to handcuff the God of the Bible as the Bible has revealed Him to us. Yes, Scripture provides our checks and balances.
~ Mark Batterson