Quotes About Truth

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking process attempts to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of logic and plausibility.

Feelings, not facts, are essential to a good gaslighting.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

She [Akhmatova] was not afraid of calling evil by its name and had learnt that do this was of the utmost importance

Gareth) "I am not certain what you hoped to accomplish, madam, but one thing is clear. No one who views this sheet will believe for one moment that I made love to a virgin last night." (Clare) "And just what will they think, sir?" (Gareth) "That I sacrificed one.

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

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When you are rich and powerful, no one will challenge you to your face or give you a chance to explain yourself. All the whispers are behind your back. You are left with no means of clearing your own name. And after a while you realize there is no point in even attempting to do so. No one wants the truth. All anyone wants is the chance to add more fuel to the fires of gossip. The whispers become so loud that sometimes you think you will drown in them.

It's also been my experience that the people you would least expect of guile and subterfuge are the most adept at hiding their true nature—at least for a while. But it almost always surfaces sooner or later, sometimes violently.

You can't fight evil in the dark, Sarah. The only way you can truly defeat it is to bring it into the light.

how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.

It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

A child that has not been taught to reverence God, and all that represents God to man—honor, honesty, justice, mercy, truth, love, courage, self-sacrifice, is sent into the world like a boat sent out to sea, without rudder, ballast, compass or captain.