Quotes About Truth

There are things that do not change, which have an absolutely and transcendent validity, and which every person has a right to know. Religiously, morally, humanly, and politically our great nation can only hope to survive if it stands firmly on the ground of truth and gives its children the bread for which they hunger. This is the great task of education.

From John's perspective, the true value of people seeing him was that people would then be positioned to see through him and gaze at Jesus. By

The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity. Truth in its rawest form is what resonates most powerfully.

When you don't speak the truth for years at a time, the words left unspoken slowly leak the air out of your connection. Even if, years later, you are ready to say what you couldn't earlier, the moment has passed. The details and circumstances have faded from memory, and yet the emotions linger.

It has been about realizing that in order for the truth to set me free, I must first be brave enough to birth it.

When you don't speak the truth for years at a time, the words left unspoken slowly leak the air out of your connection. Even if, years later, you are ready to say what you couldn't earlier, the moment has passed. The details and circumstances have faded from memory, and yet the emotions linger. And then the day finally comes when you no longer recognize the person you first loved.

It's not that the old are wise But that we thirst for the wisdom we had at twenty when we understood everything when our brains bubbled with tingling insights percolating up from our brilliant genitals when our music rang like a global siege shooting down all the lies in the world oh then we knew the truth then we sparkled like mica in granite and now we stand on the shore of an ocean that rises and rises but is too salt to drink

and my friend Karen remembers as a little girl studying Hebrew she inquired of her refugee tutor who stroked his beard and said in Yiddish "if there is a god or if there isn't a god a Jew studies"--isn't that a good story beloved, but the woman in me says that the poet lies the poet can afford to lie

Pious" is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

Truth itself is the best prudence.

It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.

As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies.

Realistically, being positive isn't always being realistic.

Gerechtigheid is één grote aanfluiting. - Alice

Eh, pap? Dat over lemmings, dat is een misverstand. Ze gooien zich helemaal niet over de kliffen de oceaan in. - Claire

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.

I am not ultimately interested in writing fiction. I can't make things up. Or rather, I can only make things up about things that have already happened.

But how could he admire Joyce's lengthy, libidinal 'yes' so fervently and end up saying 'no' to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

But if you happen to see Owen Zabriskie tomorrow, shake his hand for me." "Okay, but Aunt Esther..." "What?" Emma cupped her hand over the phone. "I was just wondering. About Mom. Did you really tell her she was a good player?" "Yes, I did," Aunt Esther said. "It was a terrible lie. She was the worst player I ever saw in my whole life." "She catches and throws just like a chicken," Emma whispered. "I know.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it's important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.

Let us drink to fellowship. May the Light bless us all, friend and stranger, and make true our tongues, and truer our hearts, and truest of all our deeds.