Quotes About Truth

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Here's an open secret of the big data world: all data is dirty. All of it.

If your mother says she loves you, check it out.

data is socially constructed.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

We must protect the girls," Mrs. Kroehne said. "You understand." I do understand. I am a contaminant and must be kept silent. It has been three months since my baby was born, three months since I walked away from my baby with milk dripping from my breasts. I will not say this to any of these young people during my time among them. I will construct careful lies and memorize them to explain myself, my dark inward life, my hunger for love, my tough resistance to trust.

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

Kaikessa kirjoittamisessa on tietenkin kaksi puolta: totta kai täytyy olla jotain mistä kirjoittaa, mutta täytyy myös osata kirjoittaa.

A young homosexual friend recently said, "It's no secret that you, that one, has such-and-such color hair, is yea high, weighs thus and so, and so on, but when you keep one part of yourself secret, that becomes the most important part of you." And that is true, I think; it may be the most important truth of all.

Theology is ultimately political. The way human communities deify the transcendent and determine the categories of good and evil have more to do with the power dynamics of the social systems which create the theologies than with the spontaneous revelation of truth from another quarter

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Ne gun?am i ne žalim se (ne znam zašto bih), a ljudi se ?ude i kao da im je krivo što sam ja miran i veseo. A ja se njima ?udim što gube vrijeme na nerazumnosti, bolje bi im bilo da žive. Ali im to ne kažem, ljudi ne vole kad im se govori istina. I žalim ih što se optere?uju nevoljama bez kojih bi mogli da budu. Dosta nam je nevolja bez kojih se ne može.

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 ne može se misliti tu?om glavom.

Ono Å¡to nije zapisano, i ne postoji; bilo pa umrlo.

A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth." Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.

Toda a estória se quer fingir verdade. Mas a palavra é um fumo, leve demais para se prender na vigente realidade. Toda a verdade aspira a ser estória. Os factos sonham ser palavra, perfumes fugindo do mundo.

Perseguida pelo medo da velhice, deixei envelhecer a nossa relação. Ocupada em me fazer bela, deixei escapar a verdadeira beleza, que apenas mora no desnudar do olhar. O lençol esfriou, a cama se desaventurou. Esta é a diferença: a mulher que tu encontraste aí, em África, fica bela apenas para ti. Eu ficava bela para mim, que é um outro modo de dizer: para ninguém.

Cada um de nós foi uma mentira, mas nós os dois fomos verdade.

O que se encontra nesta vida não resulta de procurarmos.

Também eu me refiz de mentiras, como se a mentira fosse a pele que nos protegesse mas que, de tempo em tempo, nos tivéssemos que desfazer.

Onde, nos outros, há lembranças, em mim apenas há mentiras e miragens.

Na vida só a morte é exacta. O resto balança nas duas margens da dúvida.