Quotes About Truth

The understanding table of enlightenment and the ideas of which solidifies the two sides of left and right to dictate what's true and what's false! To understand the meaning of understanding takes a lot more listening than speaking!!

The way to shut us up - to denigrate and destroy the truth we hear and see -is to render us unworthy and unsuccessful and without homes or roots.

Por lo que respecta a la educación de los hijos, creo que no hay que enseñarles las pequeñas virtudes, sino en las grandes. No el ahorro, sino la generosidad y la indiferencia hacia el dinero; no la prudencia, sino el coraje y el desprecio por el peligro; no la astucia, sino la franqueza y el amor por la verdad; no la diplomacia, sino el amor al prójimo y la admiración; no el deseo del éxito, sino deseo de ser y de saber.

Per quanto riguarda l'educazione dei figli, penso che si debbano insegnar loro non le piccole virtù, ma le grandi. Non il risparmio, ma la generosità e l'indifferenza al denaro; non la prudenza, ma il coraggio e lo sprezzo del pericolo; non l'astuzia, ma la schiettezza e l'amore alla verità; non la diplomazia, ma l'amore al prossimo e l'abnegazione; non il desiderio del successo, ma il desiderio di essere e di sapere.

The authors present many things that are new, and many things that are true; unfortunately, the things that are true are not new; and the things that are new are not true.

Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

the great statistician Frederick Mosteller had a point when he said, "It is easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie without them." Nevertheless, there are some steps you can take to, as Huff put it, "talk back to a statistic." Among the biggies recommended by many scientists is to ask a simple question: Does the figure, finding, or correlation make sense, that is, accord with what you know of objective reality?

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth, and it spreads out from the page into all of our life, and it should

Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don't have the constraints of conscious logic.

Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.

it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

Naked Lunch, after the novel by William Burroughs—"a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

Our ideas and intentions can mask and cover up a story; there is a life force that will declare itself if you let it. Get out of the way.

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...

Desperate, Tillman confessed to charges of murder and rape for which he wasn't responsible - a few weeks later, the CPD caught the real killer - but Burge still turned Tillman's false confession over to Daley's prosecutors, and Tillman was convicted.

That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.

What keeps most of us from God is not the sin we know we have, but the righteousness we think we have.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.