Quotes About Truth

social media is not real life. Her photos, which looked like casual snaps, actually took several hours to set up and up to a hundred attempts to get right...

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.

The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Among seekers of truth, painters perhaps come closest to discovering the secret of the balance of forces of the universe, and hence of man's fulfillment.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

Justice," she said. " I've heard that word. It's a cold world. I tried it out," she said, still speaking in that low voice. "I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

Objective knowledge can be learned through teachers, books, or observation of something outside of ourselves. Gnostic or noetic (an alternative spelling) knowledge is what is revealed to us or intuitively perceived as spiritually true. I think of gnosis as what we "gknow" at a soul level, it's what we know "in our bones.

Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth --- moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

That was the simple truth: he just couldn't be bothered.