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Quotes About Truth

Stop it,' he whispered. Hid lidded eyes winced. His hands faltered up to cover his face. Dusty did not stop. 'If I'd known you-if I'd known you when you were alive, I think I would have loved you, too.' Dusty, please stop.' He could barely speak. I think I do love you.' Her voice had dropped to a whisper, because it was a truth like a silver sword. 'I think I do. I cry, too.
~ Nancy Springer
If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.
~ Nancy Werlin
I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.
~ Nando Parrado
The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.
~ Naomi Alderman
However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.
~ Naomi Alderman
They say: only exceptional people can cross the borders. The truth is: anyone can cross, everyone has it in them. But only exceptional people can bear to look it in the eye.
~ Naomi Alderman
Even a stone is not the same as any other stone. There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong. Our dreams are more true than our waking.
~ Naomi Alderman
But all these were not the true religion. For the true religion is love, not fear. The strong mother cradling her child: that is love and that is truth. The girls pass this news from one, to the next, to the next. God has returned, and Her message is for us, only us.
~ Naomi Alderman
no true knowledge is ever reached without pain.
~ Naomi Alderman
What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.
~ Naomi Alderman
Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand - hasn't Allie learned that well enough? There is a blow behind the blow.
~ Naomi Alderman
Os han enseñado que sois impuras, que no sois sagradas, que vuestro cuerpo es impuro y jamás podréis albergar lo divino. Os han enseñado a despreciar todo lo que sois y a desear ser un hombre. Pero son mentiras. La Diosa está en vuestro interior, ha regresado a la Tierra para enseñaros, con la forma de este nuevo poder. No acudáis a mí en busca de respuestas, pues debéis encontrar las respuestas en vuestro interior.»
~ Naomi Alderman
You know what they say about "truth" and "the appearance of truth" being opposites.
~ Naomi Alderman
The knowledge is as good as freedom.
~ Naomi Alderman
Los más elevados entre nosotros no siempre son los más sabios, y la generación más vieja no siempre es la mejor para juzgar qué es lo correcto
~ Naomi Alderman
Nuestros sueños son más auténticos que nuestro despertar
~ Naomi Alderman
There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong.
~ Naomi Alderman
Vi è stato insegnato che siete immonde, che non siete sante, che il vostro corpo è impuro e non potrebbe mai essere la sede del divino. Vi hanno insegnato a disprezzare tutto ciò che siete e ad aspirare solo a essere un uomo. Ma vi hanno insegnato menzogne. Dio
~ Naomi Alderman
It's like this essential feature of human beings simply doesn't exist in the full-color magazine world.
~ Naomi Alderman
the highest among us aren't always the wisest, and the older generation isn't always the best to judge what's right.
~ Naomi Alderman
There are those who believe all secrets to be guilty. If the truth is innocent, they declare, why can it not be revealed? The very existence of a secret indicates malice and wrongdoing. All should be open, all exposed.
~ Naomi Alderman
U?ili vás poh?da? všetkým, ?ím ste, a túži? jedine po tom, aby ste boli mužom. U?ili vás lži.
~ Naomi Alderman
There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.
~ Naomi Alderman
Our words will swallow us. We have spat them out, but in the end they will drown us
~ Naomi Alderman