Quotes About Truth

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Yes it is true . . . America is a racist country.

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

The world, when it comes down to it, is just the schoolyard writ large. Being on the side of truth and virtue doesn't help anyone. You have to be on the side of popularity and power!

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize," she said. "The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less we are able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is.

Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is

Michael Finkel

The fact that Longo himself was a skilled liar seemed to engender in him an ancillary condition in which he was distrustful of everyone else's honesty.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand

Proust laat ook zien dat er geen betere manier om anderen te misleiden bestaat dan eerst jezelf te misleiden: 'Men liegt het hele leven door, met name tegen geliefden, en bovenal tegen de vreemdeling wiens minachting ons de meeste pijn zou doen: zichzelf.

?nsan ba?kalar?n?n kusurlar?n? yabayla saman savururcas?na kolay aç??a ç?kar?r ama kendininkileri kurnaz bir kumarbaz?n zar?n? tutu?undaki ustal?kla saklar." - Buda

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Maybe we didn't want to know. Couldn't let ourselves know.

I am not admitting to anything, i am just telling you.

I shatter the objective universe around you—and all you can say is that there's an error in the formulation!" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen".

Veritaserum

Truth Potion

Rogers held that there is not one fact or piece of data that will ever make war (or even preparing for war) morally permissible.