Quotes About Truth

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness.

And all the while, I suppose, he thought, real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood.

You asked me just now for the truth---well, the truth about any girl is that once she's talk about she's done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

The whole truth? Miss Bart laughed. What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a great deal easier to believe Bertha Dorset's story than mine, because she has a big house and an opera box, and it's convenient to be on good terms with her

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

You gave me my first glimpse of a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. It's beyond human enduring--that's all.

He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. After all, what did he know of her life? Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!

I don't say it wasn't straight, and yet I don't say it was straight. It was business.

Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent, it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile.

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

Todos vivían en una especie de mundo de acertijos, donde lo verdadero nunca se decía ni se hacía ni se pensaba.

É como acontece na maioria dos espetáculos: o público pode até se iludir, mas os atores sabem que a vida real está além das luzes da ribalta.