Quotes About Truth

The most crime is; when a brave person hid to tell the Truth because many people will suffer most.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

The truth is a hard mirror, and I am in no mood to look upon my reflection.

Which is why I stayed long enough to buy every man a pint and winnow out at least a little kernel of wheaty truth from the chaff of gossip.

And so I did not try. De Clare was a lost soul; I had seen too clearly the glint of obsession in his eyes. It was the expression worn by fanatics and evangelists the world over, the dogged determination to see only one point of view and entertain no truths but the fantasy in one's own mind. He would see this thing through to the end, no matter how many people it destroyed.

People have died for less. I know; I was there.

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

You do not yet know what it means to love someone more than yourself. I have no pride left, no delicacy. I cannot afford it. So I will tell you the truth: I wanted his happiness above all things.

loved only the illusion, the mirror face you chose to show me. I wonder which of us I pity more.

Deanna Raybourn

Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

A bit of trouble with this? I'm having a goddamned nervous breakdown. The woman I love most in the world has—after five years of marriage—decided to finally tell me the truth about what she does. That's five years of lies. That's a shit-ton of lies.

No justice that imperiled the innocent could ever be true, and Beatrice's recklessness spoke volumes as to her rage.

Have you not yet learned that villainy is not written on the face, but the heart?

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

The Spartan boy and the fox?" "Yes, the lad stole a fox pup but the Spartans had very strict rules against thievery. He hid the animal in his cloak, and rather than allow his misdeed to be found out, he let it gnaw out his vitals while he kept his silence." "And your point is?" he asked acidly. "Simply this: that truth is like that fox pup. If you suffer its ill effects in silence, it can do irreparable harm. Perhaps even kill you.

Sometimes you have to call people out. Do that a time or two, and they learn pretty quickly how dangerous mirrors are. They rarely like seeing themselves.

He'd learned many years ago that the loud and overemotional meant loud and overemotional, not right.

Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.