Quotes About Truth

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

I do not love you as I loved The loves I have loved, As I may love others: I know you are not beautiful As some I loved were beautiful, As others may be: I do not hold your counsel dear As I've held others, As I still hold some: And yet There is no truth but you, No love but you-- And Oh! there is no pain But you and me.

True love Before I fell in love with you My passion was for philosophic proof. For metaphysics and theology. My search was for the esoteric truth, For inner worlds and hid divinity. I only saw the truths inside my mind; My brain was blind To love's mystery.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

No humbling of reality to precept.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.

If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we believe in. Not necessarily in a confrontational way, but in a gentle yet firm way. Like an oak tree, able to sway gently in the wind, but strongly rooted to the ground.

Her strong enchantments failing, Her towers of fear in wreck, Her limbecks dried of poisons And the knife at her neck, The Queen of air and darkness Begins to shrill and cry, `O young man, O my slayer To-morrow you shall die.' O Queen of air and darkness I think 'tis truth you say, And I shall die to-morrow; But you shall die to-day.

When I Was One-And-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

anybody doesn't believe in reality should try to start a dead car on a 10-degree morning:

What is plain should be said plainly.

One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.

A?k sözcü?ü yerini, anlam?n? dumura u?ratt?. S?radan bir sözcük gibi yerini her ?eye açt?. Tanr? gibi varolup da var olam?yor art?k. Hem a?k?n varl??? da çok su götürür. Gerçekte a?k yoktur: Var k?lmak istiyoruz. Bu hakk?m?z da. Ba?ka bir ?eyimiz yok çünkü.

Ç?plakt?k ç?plakl???m?z s o n s u z a de?iyordu

Do they really help? It's just a few pictures in an album in your head, after all. In between those scenes you do remember there are hundreds, thousands, of scenes you've forgotten. So are you remembering the truth?

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.