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Quotes About Truth

Because that's what our family does. Pretends that if we don't talk about a thing, it didn't happen. As if we could shape the truth with our stories, or lack thereof.
~ Jennifer McMahon
But what truth would that be? There were so many to choose from.
~ Jennifer McMahon
Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Here one does not use logic to conquer chaos. Rather, one uses logic because the logic itself is beauty, is truth. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
brave thinking about truth is the secret to happiness: concerted and regular contemplation will transform us and let us taste what there is to taste of transcendence.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.
~ Jennifer Niven
Never bullshit a bullshitter.
~ Jennifer Niven
I've always been different, but to me different is normal. i decide on a version of the truth.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes feel true to us even if they are not.
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it" -Mr. Embry
~ Jennifer Niven
This girl," I tell Rachel. "That's not what I look like. That's not who I am." I have a feeling Rachel will get this because she pretended to be straight all through high school, even though she figured out she was a lesbian when she was in eighth grade. I say it again, "That's not me." Her eyes light up. "Great. Let's see if we can find her.
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes things feel true to us even if they're not
~ Jennifer Niven
You never know what someone's hiding. We all hide ourselves when we need to.
~ Jennifer Niven
He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly, see the beauty that's there.
~ Jennifer Niven
Tell her what she wants to hear. But I don't because suddenly I can't do it anymore. She's exhausting and I'm exhausting, and we're exhausting. I've been telling her what she wants to hear for the past four years.
~ Jennifer Niven
I am being as honest with myself as possible, which is harder than it sounds. Who wouldn't rather write down pretty things and pretend they are the truth?' "My photos are a way of telling stories but without the pressure of all those words. I used to think of them as a way to capture everything that's good. Everything my life wasn't. but now I take pictures of all of it: the sad, the disturbing, the ugly.
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us too. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.
~ Jennifer Niven
We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.
~ Jennifer Niven
Provable truths are what we need.
~ Ellis Peters
On almost all of which counts he was in error, but since no one was ever likely to tell him so, there was no harm done.
~ Ellis Peters
Tony was a lawyer, so you had to accept the fact he was opinionated and full of shit.
~ Elmore Leonard
Jesus," Roland said, not meaning the little Cuban but the other Jesus.
~ Elmore Leonard