Quotes About Truth

Najve?a mudrost u životu je da ?ovjek prona?e pravu ludost.

Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another.

If anyone considers this strange, or even unlikely, I can only say that the truth is something very strange, and we convince ourselves that it does not exist because we are ashamed of it, as we are of a leprous child, although in this manner the truth is not rendered less alive or less truthful. We usually beautify our thoughts and hide the vipers that slither within us. If we hide them, do they not exist?

Ljudi su zla djeca, zla po ?inu, djeca po pameti. I nikad ne?e biti druk?iji.

Tajna se duže pamti nego jasna istina.

Idi od mene, odvratna nemo?i, zavaravaš me lažnim slikama rastere?enja, koje nisu ?ak ni želje.

Ljudima nije lako kad se otkrije njihova pokvarenost. - Ali ih to ne spre?ava da budu pokvareni. - A kakvi bi tek bili kad bi mogli biti sigurni da ?e njihova djelatnost ostati neotkrivena.

Pravda je kao zdravlje, misliš o njoj kad je nema, i zaista je neodre?ena, ali je možda najviše želja da se udavi nepravda, a ona je vrlo odre?ena. Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer se ne može misliti tu?om glavom.

Zašto se smatra da su knjige pametne ako su gorke?

Kad sam prošao taj mu?ni put, doznavši i ono što mi nije bilo potrebno, moja naivnost je umrla, od stida.

Najteže je objasniti ono što je najjednostavnije.

Thou shalt not distort, delay, or withhold information.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

There ain't no coupe de Ville hidin' in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.

real religion is in people's hearts and not in buildings, texts, or rituals.

Every path leads to the same god.

But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated and what is implied, is a place in which I have always found myself. I'm really not a liar, I just learned very early on that those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.(p10)

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.

So much relies on one person assuming the other is telling the truth. If a person can lie to you about one thing, he can lie about something else.

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting. The.Time.Simply.Passed.

In theory, I would like to lead a transparent life. I would like my life to be as clear as a new pane of glass, without anything shameful and no dark shadows. I would like that. But if I am completely honest, I have to acknowledge secrets too painful even to tell myself. There