Quotes About Truth

For so many years I had used my connections to get special treatment. I expected people to overlook my tendency to bend the rules or cut corners or even kite checks. Standing in the hallway, temporarily banished from my prison room for illicit possession of office supplies, I felt good about telling the truth. It was a small thing. Nothing at risk but a few sheets of carbon paper. But it felt important.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

And there ain't nothin' like a friend who can tell you you're just pissin' in the wind. -- Neil Young, "Ambulance Blues" from "On the Beach" (1974)

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none. -Neil Young

you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.

Zoals we het verleden nu beschrijven was het niet, en zoals het was zullen we het niet kunnen beschrijven.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

Niente può essere più lontano dalla verità.

There is a stage in the life of every social reformer when he will thunder on platforms primarily to relieve himself of the scraps of undigested information that has accumulated in his head; an attempt to impress the crowds rather than to start a calm and simple exposition of principles and ideas whose universal truth is made evident by personal experience and deeper study.

Truth will rise like the sun from the morning clouds!

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

In my opinion—which is as good as yours and anybody else's—truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

Life, like all games, becomes true, when one realises it is a game.

Creo que todo cuanto la imaginación humana ha representado es verdad

Ha! Satan, you're a liar!

Light People bring clarity, not confusion.