Quotes About Truth

Molto più importante di quello che sappiamo o non sappiamo è quello che non vogliamo sapere.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.

Self-contempt produces in man "the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.

History does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

not keeping a promise is the same as lying!

when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth!

Lust is a master showman who disguises himself as love, and love is a mythical creature who keeps habitat with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other lies we have been fed.

the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!

honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.

Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.

Your lies are like a silent fart. Can't see 'em, but I can smell 'em.

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.

It is not a race that can be won, a truth the brain-aware manic knows somewhere in his being and a truth that brings with it additional sadness even at the height of the racing, as the manic races but knows that he can't outrace existential distress.

Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality. (Frith 2007)

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth -- but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

La verdad es que las fantasías, fantasías son y una no puede vivir extasiada todos los días del año. Incluso si das un portazo y te largas, incluso si jodes con todo el mundo a la vista, no te acercas más a la libertad necesariamente.

What we remember lacks the hard edge of fact. To help us along we create little fictions, highly subtle and individual scenarios which clarify and shape our experience. The remembered event becomes a fiction, a structure made to accommodate certain feelings. This is obvious to me. If it weren't for these structures, art would be too personal for the artist to create, much less for the audience to grasp. Even film, the most literal of all the arts, is edited. —Jerzy Kosinski

The truth is we all want to be known. And we're simultaneously afraid of it. We want to be unmasked, and the person who can unmask us wins our respect.