Quotes About Truth

God's truth is life ?even the grotesque shapes of its foulest fire.

I'd rather be happy than be right." Probably

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.

Like a voice crying in the wilderness, we beg members of the foreign press to earn their wages honestly, and suggest that if they must lie they do so about their own countries, but not about El Salvador ." (Notice displayed on the wall of the Ministry of Defence press office, El Salvador, 1983.)

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over the other one until one day you looked and the person you knew was gone. And instead there was a half-ghost sitting there who had only one thing to say: All the beautiful things of this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

Aveva perso il controllo. Non si controlla un innamoramento, mi disse, non è possibile. E la divertiva che fosse potuto accadere in questo modo, con quest'uomo. Un paziente. Un paziente che lavorava nell'orto. Stella, le dissi, non potevi fare una scelta più scriteriata. La verità, mi rispose, è che non ho scelto affatto.

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.

No hay mejor sistema para que se desvanezcan los fantasmas que mirarles a los ojos.

He no longer knew which man he was. He told me that after a certain number of years, we accept a truth that we've intuited but kept hidden from ourselves, out of carelessness or cowardice: a brother, a double died in our stead on an unknown date and in an unknown place, and his shadow ends up merging with us.

Tenía usted razón cuando me decía que en la vida, lo que cuenta no es el porvenir, sino el pasado.

No era de verdad yo misma más que mientras escapaba.

There is a God we want, and there is a God who is. They are not the same God. The turning point of our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

To protect our self-image, we kid, trick, and fool ourselves into believing the visible you is somehow real. To see ourselves as we really are, we must acknowledge our inability to do so without God's help.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

If you speak the truth, the monster whispered in his ear, you will be able to face whatever comes.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.