Quotes About Truth

Real life is an overrated idea.

Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.

I hate the truth!" "You don't need to like it. It's something we live with, like water or light.

Todo el mundo tiene secretos. Todos hacemos cosas que no queremos que se sepan.

La paura finisce dove comincia la verità.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

Spune nu doar acela care îl ?tie pe da. Îns? el, care ?tie totul, la nu ?i da are foile rupte.

But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

What's right and what's true are different.

In truth, though, Villeneuve was still in command, and still in Cadiz.

If the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the West, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain.

You have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping.

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

Seems to me if you talk about these things too much, the magic gets lost and pretty soon talk is all there is. Some things in life just... are.

What wanton liars love makes of us.

Man is the measure of all things', meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.

Nicholas Guild

Television viewers, I was assured, expect to be told the truth in "science programmes". When I protested that in several areas I was not yet at all sure what the truth was, worse still that I was not sure that it mattered what the truth was so long as one way of looking at things made better sense than another, it left everybody confused.