Quotes About Truth

each person here because the time has come for this, for arriving and surrendering, for saying yes to the truth and just going there, to that place, where we already are.

I don't exactly know, but it feels important to go there. It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it. Everything's changing so fast. I want to believe in something while there's still time. I want to tell the truth, even when it's difficult. And I want to find the story I'm meant to write.

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know. In the same way that fish had quickness, cats had a way of being still. That was their gift, and you could learn a lot by watching them get there. If you lay close with them, and matched your breathing with theirs, you sometimes thought you had a great and very rare secret.

During an interview; Then McLain returns to the impact on Markham and Blixen of the death of Finch Hatton. "You know, there's a line at the end of my book that goes, 'This time with Denys would fade, and it would last forever.' That's something I actually believe about love. Sometimes we don't get to keep the people we love the most and who change us the most. That's an unromantic, uncommercial view of love. But to me it feels absolutely true.

No one really knows how it is with anyone else. That's the truth. That's our only real retaliation when the gossip starts to churn.

Is everything propaganda?" I shuddered and looked again at the pilot, who was here in this godforsakenly frigid place, and probably thought he was going to be shot at any moment. All because his government had told a great lie. He was living that lie, and didn't even know.

I want to write one true sentence, he said. If I can write one sentence, simple and true, every day, I'll be satisfied.

You have no reason to fear me. I'll prove to you that I'm not a monster.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground

I told you but you didn't hear me. You hear what you want.

All he had was the story of his life, which was as good as any other man's, and in the end it is all we have.

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND

CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

Hay un momento, un instante en la eternidad. Antes de descubrir la verdad el uno sobre el otro. Ese simple momento es el que nos impulsa a través de la vida - cuando nos sentimos como si estamos en el borde de nuestro futuro, de pie sobre el abismo, antes de saber a ciencia cierta que amamos. Antes de saber a ciencia cierta que amamos para siempre.

Le mandò un bacio e sparì, senza guardare Tatiana. E lei sperava disperatamente in un ultimo, fuggevole sguardo. Nella semioscurità avrebbe voluto sentire i suoi occhi dolci su di sé, leggervi la verità che aveva appena negato. Ma lui non la guardò, Tatiana non poté leggere nessuna verità. Vide solo che l'aveva rifiutata.

Nunca te comprometas en aquello que tu corazón no te diga que es correcto

a veces ya no sé distinguir lo que es verdad de lo que no lo es.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.