Quotes About Truth

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

The body never lies." Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder on a person than being wrong.

honest, focused, positive, and authentic

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

I'm a firm believer that ultimately the truth cannot hurt you. It can bring you pain, heartache, and sadness but it cannot destroy the person you are. It can bring you understanding of whom and what you are.

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time." —JAMES THURBER

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Don't look at me like that's my fault. I'm just telling you shit I know.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

She knows SecUnit is not so much taunting her with its abilities as refusing to pretend to be anything other than it is. And that's for the best, because being honest about that is the only way forward.

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run

It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.

Reality, with all its attendant complexities--i.e., other people--was inescapable...