Quotes About Truth

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

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C'est ce que je veux, je veux d'autres tourments, des maux réels, des manifestations physiques d'un comportement précis. La cause de mon mal sera l'alcool ; pas la vérité, l'alcool. Je préfère une maladie qui tient dans les limites d'une bouteille plutôt qu'une maladie immatérielle et toute-puissante sur laquelle je ne peux pas mettre de nom ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p37)

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

some anonymous guy in a bar at a conference, then the newspapers start asking questions. Pretty soon I'll bet it's going to be on Twitter and then there'll be an Internet meme. It doesn't have to exist in reality as long as people give it a kind of reality by talking and writing and arguing about it.

beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.

Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41

old Irish adage, people only know what you tell them.

There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.' George Santayana 1863-1952 'There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.' Isaiah 48:22

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence' Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Proverbs 31:10

Whoever said that money made you happy was a liar. A dirty rotten stinking liar!

Tell the truth and shame the Devil, remember.

People only knew what you told them, only saw what you wanted them to see. Her mother had hammered that into her head since she was a child,

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

Reality is just this game people play together, something their brain decides on, and the minute their brain gets iffy about reality, they realize everything they know about the world is just their own made-up version of it, and that would mean everyone is walking around in their own made-up world, all alone, and reality is just something we invent together to make us feel not so alone. It scares people when some of us check out of the game.

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

Remember I told you the truth so that the words and the real might be one again, giving you power. Remember me, and love me anyway.

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

When a lie is not for yourself it's easier to say it.