Quotes About Truth

When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.

despite what she said, she knew the

A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.

Never forget, either of you, that there is always something greater than yourselves at work in the world. Look for it. Seek the whole truth, rather than letting the wind blow you as it will.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

It'll be okay. There are a lot of unfair things in this world, and gay people certainly come in for their share of them—but so do lots of other people, and besides, it doesn't really matter. What matters is the truth of loving, of two people finding each other. That's what's important, and don't you forget it.

Annie, la profesora Widmer tenía razón. La verdad nos hace libres, ¿te acuerdas? Annie, ya soy libre. Y te quiero. ¡Te quiero muchísimo!

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Know the truth," Ms. Widmer used to quote—remember we used to say it to each other?—"and the truth will make you free.

I don't want to pretend any more. You make me—want to be real.

It was hard to believe that once upon a time, she had been afraid of pretend things. The real world was pretty darn scary on its own.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.

What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.

People can choose to treasure those parts of their heritage that they see as favorable and wish to keep, jettisoning what unpleasant truths they would prefer to forget.

And so the great American saga, as taught, excludes the very pertinent fact that after the 1630s, less than half came to Massachusetts for religious reasons.

the great American saga, as taught, excludes the very pertinent fact that after the 1630s, less than half came to Massachusetts for religious reasons.

Listening to things that are not true is the first step toward ultimate bondage and death. That

What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage

When God sent His only Son, Jesus, to this earth to bear your sin and mine on the cross, He put a price tag on us—He declared the value of our soul to be greater than the value of the whole world. Whose opinion are you going to accept? Believing a lie will put you in bondage. Believing the Truth will set you free.

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

if it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn't right.

Listening to counsel or ways of thinking that are not according to the Truth is the first step in developing wrong beliefs that will ultimately place us in bondage. Once we have listened to the lie, the next step toward bondage is that we . . .   DWELL ON THE LIE.

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.