Quotes About Truth

Se bem que, cruel engano, nós nos afastemos com frequência da felicidade através dos meus que verdadeiramente nos deveriam dela aproximar. Daí os frequentes equívocos a seu respeito: que deve ser reivindicado como um dever, aprendido como uma matéria escolar, construído como uma casa: que se compra, qual moeda, que outros enfim possuem de fonte segura e que basta imitá-los para sermos inundados como eles pela mesma aura.

eis a verdade: ninguém mente inteiramente ao mentir.

L'écrivain est le langage qui se dévore lui-même dans l'homme dévoré par le mentir qui en fait le noyau.

Le romancier est le seul menteur qui ne tait pas le fait qu'il ment.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

You hide behind cosmetic eyes Kiss them off with Lipstick Lies Lipstick Lies won't hide the truth They won't keep you waterproof

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Because if you didn't speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.

Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!

if you didn't speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.

Out of death, life; an immutable truth

Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.

Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night. I have no choice but to pursue the deepest truth my life has given me.

In writing, we see, sometimes with fear and trembling, who we have been, who we really are, and we glimpse now and then who we might become.

Something in me that was broken, cracked—becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.

Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

When people visit my farm they often envision their dog, finally off-leash in acres of safely fenced countryside, running like Lassie in a television show, leaping over fallen tree trunks, shiny-eyed with joy at the change to run free in the country. While they're imagining that heartwarming scene, their dog is most likely gobbling up sheep poop as fast as he can. Dog aren't people, and if they have their own image of heaven, it most likely involves poop.