Quotes About Truth

Acaso todavía hay mentes lo bastante ingenuas para pensar que las teorías sirven para ser creídas?

Que una enorme parte de mala fe se mezclara con mi indignación no contradice el fondo de la cuestión

Je n'injurie jamais, monsieur, je diagnostique.

Quién era el escritor que decía que cada existencia se reducía a un miserable montoncito de secretos?

Le problème, c'est que ces horreurs puent la vérité.

no resultarían más útiles a su texto amándolo pese a todo, con ese amor verdadero que no se expresa a través de la verborrea sino con un silencio puntuado de palabras fuertes?

Monsieur Tach, puis-je vous prier de répondre en toute sincérité à cette question : me prenez-vous pour un imbécile ? - Naturellement. - Merci pour votre sincérité.

Personne ne connaît mieux un individu que son assassin. [...] Les prix Nobel de la paix sont souvent des assassins, mais les prix Nobel de littérature sont toujours des assassins.

Podría parecer que en los USA la mentira sea el mal por excelencia, si puedo expresarlo así. Sin duda soy muy europea: la mentira sólo me ofusca si perjudica a alguien. En este caso, no veo a quién puede perjudicar. Algunos

Et tout ceci prouvait au plus haut point que Dieu était Dieu. Et cette évidence n'avait aucune importance, car Dieu se fichait éperdument d'être Dieu.

N'espère pas être amoureuse, car tu n'en vaux pas la peine : ceux qui t'aimeraient t'aimeraient pour tes mirages, jamais pour ta vérité.

Il n'y a rien de gentil à laisser de faux espoirs. L'ambiguïté est la source de la douleur.

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth".

No condenéis a los mentirosos. En el fondo del alma de todo aquel que miente no hay quizá más que un instinto confuso de estética y de perfección.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

From time to time, everyone distorts. We all tend to believe what supports our side of the question and doubt what weakens it. When we are under stress, we tend to believe what we need to believe.

False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.