Quotes About Truth

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

Lies are essential to humanity.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

Delusion is the greatest barrier of humanity..

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.