Quotes About Truth

Ja toch? Hertog Luciano van Bellezza, gemaal van de schone duchessa?' 'Ja,' zei Arianna. 'Dat zou kunnen.' 'Zou kunnen?' 'Dat moet je me eerst vragen. 'Ik vraag je.' 'En ik moet eerst ja zeggen.' 'Zeg je ja?' 'Ja,' zei Arianna. 'Met heel mijn hart.' En ze gooide haar masker weg.

Hij zei: "Bell is voor de duvel niet bang," wat dus absoluut niet waar is, maar toch...' 'Ik geloof dat je wel een kansje maakt.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

Even though you can hide from the earth, heaven sees you act. AMISH PROVERB

I knew, I knew, but I tried to close the door on my knowing.

There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men.

told me, a lord, no less.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

Sherlock Holmes could put the tiniest clues together to find the truth. He was almost impossible to fool. So it might seem surprising that his creator, Sir Arthur, believed in fairies. But he did.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Level with you child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

As I stand among the barren gulches in these days and look away at the slow-awakening hills of Montana, I hear the high, swelling, half tired, half-hopeful song of the world. As I listen I know that there are things, other than the Virtue and the Truth and the Love, that are not for me. There is beyond me, like these, the unbreaking, undying bond of human fellowship—a thing that is earth-old.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Every word she [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." (on Lillian Hellman)

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.

subject would largely have to have been a retraction. Because all the while, I was looking for lies to expose. No bit of information existed merely as a fact but as a clue to a deep underlying truth that would reveal a massive cover-up by both East and West.

They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost none of it could emerge to penetrate public consciousness.