Quotes About Truth

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

I once heard a writer say, 'It's easy to write a novel, you just slit your wrist and let it bleed on the pages.' She was right...Sophocles and Freud believed that we are defined by our fears. There's a lot of truth to that. When you share your greatest fears, your vulnerability, we bond in that honesty. We connect with each other and we don't feel so alone. And that's what books are really about. Connecting.

If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust. For those who love you will speak truth, and truth is not always happy, but it is always a blessing.

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Humility is the power to admit that you may be wrong. Admitting to false beliefs is not weakness, it is the first step on the path to truth. And make no mistake, there is no such thing as individual truth, only individual perception. Perception is subjective, but truth isn't.

Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can't change

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

we try to ease our pain with anger. But anger isn't strength. It only masks itself as strength. It's weakness. At its core, it's fear. Fear of facing what might be truth

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

It's because the very core of their identity is called into question. Whether they're guilty or not makes almost no difference. That's just the way we're wired.

All gold does not glitter.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

The devil will tell a thousand truths to sell one lie.'

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

We do not always believe things because they're true. More often than not, we believe things because they're expedient.

I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.

For poetry, like life, is its own justification

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

Pär grinned. "What's so funny?" "You are, Bartolomeo." "Everything you've said is true," Nikos added, "but it's not that simple. Your choices, your decisions, were not necessarily the wrong choices. Sometimes, they were the right choices, the moral choices. They just didn't work out." "That's an understatement." "I'm