Quotes About Truth

It was a day when I was preparing a speech to be delivered in praise of the Emporor; there would be a lot of lies in the speech and they would be applauded by those who knew that they were lies." The Confessions of St. Augustine

The arguments themselves did not appear to me to be any better simply because they were better expressed; eloquence did not make them true." St. Augustine page 85

We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.

most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened , than in what it meant . It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.

Victims are never honest with themselves

The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease." Charles Haanel

A person is what you experience, it is not what you are.

Cada vez que sufrimos, es porque creíamos algo de nosotros mismos que resulta no ser cierto.

While we are subjected to the night dream, everything seems to be real. If we see a tiger, we are afraid because we don't know that we are creating the tiger. If we knew that we couldn't possibly be afraid, could we? This demonstrates that an illusion can seem to be quite real while we are subjected to it, even though, when we become aware of its illusory nature, we understand that it was we who were creating it all along." Francis Lucille, from Truth Love Beauty

Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but yourself; you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifested

The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.

In case you haven't noticed, people aren't nice,

On Betrayal ] ...The theme seems to be betrayal in relationships but in fact it is 'honesty' and how there are different gradations of honesty. Revealing the truth is not the only alternative to concealing it. There can be layers of carefully managed confession and revelation. Also the inaccuracy of memory itself can be a crucial factor in determining who knew what and when they knew it.

The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.

Ratones arriba, que todo lo blanco no es harina.

Todos nos inventamos historias diversas (que en el fondo son siempre la misma) para imaginar que nos ha pasado algo en la vida.

There's another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths.

A verdade está inscrita na estrutura do mundo, apenas temos de saber lê-la.

Dios existió a la 1:50 a.m., en fin, para darle las gracias por ella, para sospechar que nunca un esposo quiso tanto a su esposa, para susurrar que es mejor que la gente no lo sepa, pues nadie dormiría tranquilo si lo supiera, pero la verdad es que el mundo depende de que ella siga bien.

Tengo una versión oficial de esta parte de la historia que, sin embargo, cada vez se me parece más a la verdad: que todo hombre debe haberse divorciado al menos una vez antes de casarse de verdad

Y qué voy a hacer yo ahora. Quién va a creerme desde mañana que nadie tiene que lidiarme, que yo soy el que vive aquí adentro y sabe cómo funcionan las cosas.

La vida duele pero es todo pero es nada pero es cierta.