Quotes About Truth

Dysmorphia is when someone looks in the mirror, and sees something else. While I studied my own whatever I was, I decided that maybe everyone has at least a touch of dysmorphia; maybe it's impossible for anyone to ever truly know what they look like.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

Romance always involved a bit of deceit.

The world is what it is.

The real world didn't well accommodate principles.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

One always saw and sees through pretense.

They crucified Jesus not because they disliked what he said, but because they couldn't take it

People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

One night on the road just after Alive! came out, a woman and I were lying under the sheets in a hotel bed. She turned to me, puzzled, and said, "My boyfriend told me you were gay." "Well, I guess that didn't work," I said. "Because it didn't keep you away.

El propio Spinoza no tuvo ninguna duda sobre la verdad y la certeza de su pensamiento: «No pretendo haber encontrado la mejor filosofía, pero sí sé que pienso la verdadera. Si se me pregunta cómo lo sé, respondo que de la misma manera que se conoce que los tres ángulos de un triángulo suman dos ángulos rectos».

On Tuesday, July 8, 1947, at 11:00 a.m. Mountain Time (MT), Roswell Army Air Field commanding officer, Colonel William Blanchard, announced (in a press release) the recovery of a flying disc.5 THAT WAS THE TRUTH!

The story raises the ugly truth about international banks assisting in the creation of a formidable enemy and then making tons of money financing an American war machine capable of containing it.

Ray Stone sent me an e-mail from one of his friends, Nickolas Evanoff, who had seen the real thing. It reads as follows:

You can't change a tiger by whitewashing its stripes.

Did you see these buildings turn to dust or do you 'believe' they collapsed because you were told that they collapsed? Whoever controls the energy controls the people. But whoever controls their perception controls everything.17 – Eric Larsen

Narcissists are actors playing a part. They are expert liars, and, even worse, they believe their own lies. Practiced in dishonesty, they can't tell the difference between their own version of truth and a falsehood. They may take the past and rearrange it to make themselves look good. They rarely if ever admit fault, and they never say they're sorry. —Rokelle Lerner, author of The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists

The conservative heretics were like all the others here in Dis: though they claimed to champion truth, in reality they loved something else more than truth—in this case, the comfort of their own smugness. It was a subtle form of idolatry, but idolatry nonetheless. Fancy that: feuding theological cousins—liberals and conservatives—the spitting image of each other, bedded down now side by side in flaming poetic justice.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Truth without the way to truth is dead.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.