Quotes About Truth

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Some Protestants insist that Protestantism is "Bible Christianity," a religion that takes the whole, inspired Bible as the only and final authoritative source of truth.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

No idea is bad unless a person is uncritical. Accepting a guess as a truth, as superstitious people do, is misguided, but so is ignoring a guess, as pedantic people do. As regards ideas, it is only bad not to have any.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life....

no te da miedo la locura? —¡Por favor! Es lo único maravilloso en esta sucia vida de mierda.

stumbling around I speak to keep from betraying a secret

Solamente ya comprendo la verdad estalla en mis deseos y en mis desdichas en mis desencuentros en mis desequilibrios en mis delirios ya comprendo la verdad ahora a buscar la vida

Because madness is a lie too. Like night. Like death.

No eres tú la culpable de que tu poema hable de lo que no eres." - Alejandra Pizarnik

Soñé que me miraba y que me sonreía como quien oye dulces mentiras. Era tan cierto que tenía que ser mentira.

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

pero si no se ve lo trágico de todo se es un idiota.