Quotes About Truth

The mere reading of words will not show you or give you the experience of truth.

Rumors were nothing more than blunted swords of simple minds and wagging tongues.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best -- out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

I guess I had all kinds of ideas about him, but they weren't really him, they were just what I made him in my head. The reality was not as attractive as the ideal.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

No amount of saying 'I love you' and 'I trust you' makes it true when it isn't.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

ono što se ne može objasniti samome sebi, treba govoriti drugome. Sebe možes obmanuti nekim dijelom slike koji se nametne, teško izrecivim osje?anjem, jer se skriva pred mukom saznavanja i bježi u omaglicu, u opijenost koja ne traži smisao. Drugome je neophodna ta?na rije?, zato je i tražiš, osje?aš da je negde u tebi, i loviš je, nju ili njenu sjenku, prepoznaješ je na tu?em licu, u tu?em pogledu, kad po?ne da shvata.

Ljudi su zla djeca. Zla po ?inu,djeca po pameti. I nikada ne?e biti druga?iji.

Uvijek svi znaju za nesre?u i zlo, samo dobro ostaje skriveno.

Pobuna! Je li to samo re?, ili je misao? Ako je misao, onda je moja misao, ili moja zabluda. Ako je zabluda teško meni; ako je istina, teško meni još više.

pravda je pravo da u?inimo ono što mislimo da treba...

A ljubav ti je razumna jer joj ne vjeruješ suviše. Kao ni ja. Samo ne?u to da priznam.

Najteže se govori o onome što te se najviše ti?e.