Quotes About Truth

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

What does a row matter? Anything's better than deceiving each other. If a relationship can't stand up to the truth, then what sort of relationship is it? Anyway—' agitatedly, Meta twisted a length of scarf round her hand—'it doesn't matter any more.

Don't you ever read any of the books about women who enjoyed it?' he said. 'Enjoyed being raped?' 'Enjoyed the company of men.' 'Oh! Well, some of them say they did.' 'So why would they say it if it wasn't true?' For a moment that stumped her. 'I just can't imagine it,' she said, 'that's all.

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

Children can then quickly discover that there is such a thing called truth; that they are not living in a chaotic world that is hypocritical, filled with only lies and pretense. Parents who admit to their children that they have been unjustly angry and ask for forgiveness are naming something: they are admitting that they are not perfect. Words and life can come together: the word can indeed become flesh.

The language of elitism smells bad! It is not healthy to believe that we are the only ones to have captured truth and even less healthy to condemn others.

Freedom lies in discovering that the truth is not a set of fixed certitudes but a mystery we enter into, one step at a time. It is a process of going deeper and deeper into an unfathomable reality.

We all flow from a source that is unfathomable and we are all journeying towards it, carrying with us the light of truth and love. Each of us is called to be in communion with the source and heart of the universe.

La actitud principal y necesaria en el discernimiento comunitario es la apertura, la búsqueda de la verdad y la confianza de que esta verdad será alcanzada

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life - written perfectly and truthfully by an omniscient author? ... how many could suppress their curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the price of having to live without hope and without surprise?

There's never any use bothering to tell people the truth when you don't like them. The reason Conny and Pris and I get on so well together, is because we always tell each other the exact truth about our faults. Then we have a chance to correct them—that's what makes us so nice," she added modestly.

He compuesto un poema a la victoria: ¡Quién lo hubiera creído! ¡El doctor MacRae ha sonreído! ¡Es verdad!

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

The lies one tells always pale in comparison to the truths one withholds.

Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

N'ayons pas peur des mots. Ils n'ont pas peur de nous.

Om niet terecht te komen in de valkuilen die onze zintuigen, ons dagelijkse denken en de vastgelopen logica ons voorspiegelen.

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

She was no sworn wife, but Robin was the only man she ever loved as a husband... though not as much as her crown and thrown. The truth that tore at her breast, turning her about in circles, because he had known... he had known his love was greater than hers. Though it was not, she never could explain it rightly. No man understood, that he was not everything to the woman he loved.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.