Quotes About Truth

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

He didn't liehe just gave her false hopes~

People visit exposed and vulnerable

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.

Humanity lives in its fiction.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.