Quotes About Truth

The reason we need words to define our hearts is that our hearts are lonely, vulnerable, bare and beating things, and sometimes, they do not always know truth unless they hear it.

How do you explain the bone-deep knowledge that this thing you con for, lie for, cheat for, ain't never gonna

They'll be wonderful," Henry said with a faint smile. "They'll respect her decisions and tell her the truth as they know it and be kind when her heart's broken. It's really all she can ask for.

WHEN MACKEY was ten and Cheever had been in diapers, Kell had been stuck with babysitting duty while their mom was working nights. Grant and Stevie often came over to keep the boys company, both of them playing fast and loose with the truth of "Are there adults there to supervise?

Dad lied to the policeman who came to my room—and he was the nice one. But he got shot, and this other guy is all hard and shit, and he comes pounding on my dad's door and starts yelling at him to get with the program!" "What's the program?

Apparently some of the guys in gay-for-pay really were straight.

You should," Jefferson said grandly. "It's always a lot easier if you assume the world is wrong and you're right. If you assume the other way around, we may as well pray for the earth to swallow us up because we're not doing jackshit right!

It's true we're all a little insane

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Reality can be very boring.

Opinions are a useless currency

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

I already lost everything, what's there to hide?

Her marriage had been made. Everyone had known it but the bride.

People were fascinated by the idea of someone pulling the wool over their eyes.

Just because you admired someone didn't mean he was your soul mate.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Every Christian must refer always and everywhere to Scriptures for all his choices…not daring to take a step without being illuminated by the divine rays of those words.

All On is a kind of lying.

The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

I mentioned how much I like the Magi, not only because they stop to ask for directions, but also because they are delightfully comic figures. They speak the truth, even when they do not realize the import of their words. I then compared them to Larry, Moe, and Curly (if these are unfamiliar people to you, ask someone over the age of seventy).

Le poisson ne vous dira pas que le pêcheur pêche, mais vous dira qu'il est en train de tuer

you can't bribe the history to talk about you