Quotes About Truth

you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

There's a lot of truth in the adage that all cars named after animals are lemons.

His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Oh, well, if it's a matter of honor," I said. "You should have said that to begin with. Not that it has anything to do with deciding what we ought to do next, but I am sure you would have felt better for saying it.

Then we'd be living a lie," Padmé told him gently. "And one we couldn't keep

must tell them sometime," Alethia said. "I would rather get it over with now. And they are conveniently on our doorstep.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE

The distress and discord that permeate the lives of millions are clear messages meant to tell us something. Just as a searing physical pain says something is wrong, so, too, does the psychic pain that floats through the world. Whatever form it takes, it is a sign that people have forgotten what is real and what is not, what is pretend and what is not, who they are and who they are not.

strength flows from spirit full enough to nurture another, alive enough to act toward good, clear enough to understand, faithful enough to wait and see, fearless enough to reveal the truth, free enough to choose to learn, courageous enough to stand alone, connected enough to love the other.

By recognizing the abuse for what it is, the partner dispels the

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

Life is a journey. A hopeless cliché. But not its fault. Cliché is the fate of every fully absorbed truth. The stars, for example, do look like diamonds. You just can't say so.

Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Everything you've longed for "out there" is already within you. The path to authenticity travels through your own heart, mind, body, and spirit.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Sometimes you think you know more than you really do—people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

Didn't say it was easy. Said it was simple. Some of the simplest things aren't easy at all.

All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take from it - did it make you laugh, cry, or seek and want justice? Then it's true.

Truth doesn't stay hidden. Neither do secrets. One day, to a praying heart, they disclose themselves.

You're Joe Spain's beautiful daughter. That's why you came back home- to finally discover every part of that truth.