Quotes About Truth

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

I cannot stay, he lied for me, eyes averted. I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you. His gaze met mine. And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die.

Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light

Hope died hard, and the lie was easier to bear.

A veces se necesita que te den un buen golpe en la cabeza para darte cuenta de que lo que siempre has deseado no era lo que más te convenía.

Tengo que hacer la pregunta adecuada?-pregunté. Él negó con la cabeza. -No existe ninguna pregunta. Lo único que cuenta es lo que ves con tus propios ojos.

El vivir una mentira podía desgarrarte de una forma brutal y hacerte perder el control en el momento más inesperado.

Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.

I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.

Harsh and savage. Survival. It was never beautiful, except for its pure honesty.

Uncle Austin used to say that when men set out to destroy each other, the first victim was always the same: truth.

Whether one has a correct outlook on the revolution or not is revealed particularly at a time of severe trials. People reveal their true nature in adverse circumstances.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.

None of us know our real names.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

If you don't act on it, it wasn't a true feeling

Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

So until the climate was actually killing them, people had a tendency to deny it could happen.

It was important to get things right, especially if you were going to make sayings out of them.

Winning all those banquet debates had apparently caused Galileo to think that argument was how things were settled in the world. Unfortunately this is never how it happens.

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

I realized right then and there, the world was real. The World was real .