Quotes About Truth

There are many versions of a story. Many sides and lenses that can distort, change, illuminate what is seen and unseen. What is heard and unheard. What is felt and unfelt. In the end, truth is but a facet of a diamond, a spark of ray from the sun, a forget-me-not flower seen from the eyes of a bee. What lives and breathes as reality is a perception, so who is to say what is possible and impossible?

Hell = "where we get rid of all the lies told to us. That's where we go and cry like rain. Mom, hell is where you go to see yourself.

One has to fabricate their own world, we must create the steps that will move us forward, that will pull us out of the well. Let's invent life, because it ends up becoming the truth.

Los rumores, como los mitos, se parecen mucho a la niebla, que va extendiéndose de pueblo en pueblo y acaba medio borrando la realidad, aunque no su origen.

Os tempos modernos surgem justamente com esse questionamento sobre o real e o imaginário, essa desconfiança em relação a certezas que vinham sendo aceitas como verdades e que o espírito humano começava a desafiar.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Anatole Broyard

Love, truth, beauty, wisdom, and consolation against death. - Anatole Broyard in his dislike of "Lending Books" from editor Rabinowitz's collection "A Passion for Books

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions. If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Šta može hladna i gola istina protiv blistavih ?ari laži?

Kobieta jest szczera wtedy, gdy nie k?amie bezu?ytecznie.

Eu não espero que os adversários da verdade confessem que se enganaram. Uma atitude como essa só é possível às almas mais elevadas.

Si cinquante millions de gens disent une sottise, ça n'en reste pas moins une sottise.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

La razón guía y alumbra, pero si la divinizáis, acaso ciegue y sea instigadora de crímenes…