Quotes About Truth

Iz mojih ?u misli nastojati uvek sve neistine da odagnam, znaju?i da si ti istina ta koja je svetlost razuma u mom umu zapalila. Iz mog ?u srca nastojati uvek svako zlo da proteram i moju ljubav u cvatu sa?uvam, znaju?i da sedište je tvoje u najskrivenijem hramu mog srca. I u mojim ?u delima nastojati tebe da otkrijem, znaju?i da tvoja je sila ta koja snagu mi daje da delam.

This truth has not only a subjective value, but is manifested in every department of our life. And nations who sedulously cultivate moral blindness as the cult of patriotism will end their existence in a sudden and violent death.

Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can

When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And

Si tu fermes la porte à toutes les erreurs, la vérité restera dehors

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

You create what you speak. So, speak a better world. Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your despair and let it lead you back to your truth.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

A degree of self-deception, she said, was an essential part of the talent for living.

Fate, he said, is only truth in its natural state. When you leave things to fate it can take a long time, he said, but its processes are accurate and inexorable.

The truth often appears in the guise of a threat to the social code. It has this in common with rudeness. When people tell the truth, they can experience a feeling of release from pretence that is perhaps similar to the release of rudeness. It might follow that people can mistake truth for rudeness, and rudeness for truth. It may only be by examining the aftermath of each that it becomes possible to prove which was which.

I said it seemed to me that most marriages worked in the same way that stories are said to do, through the suspension of disbelief. It wasn't, in other words, perfection that sustained them so much as the avoidance of certain realities.

The worst thing, it seemed to her, was to be dealing with one version of a person when quite another version existed out of sight.

Language is not only the medium through which existence is transacted, it constitutes our central experiences of social and moral content, of such concepts as freedom and truth, and, most importantly, of indivduality and the self; it is also a system of lies, evasions, propaganda, misrepresentation, and conformity.

Suffering had always appeared to me as an opportunity, I said, and I wasn't sure I would ever discover whether this was true and if so why it was, because so far I had failed to understand what it might be an opportunity for. All I knew was that it carried a kind of honour, if you survived it, and left you in a relationship to the truth that seemed closer, but that in fact might have been identical to the truthfulness of staying in one place.

I knew then, she said, that he was a liar, that for all his reportage and his honesty he was determined to keep himself untouched, to take without giving, to hoard himself like a greedy child.

Evlilik, baÅŸka ÅŸeylerin yan?nda, bir inanç sistemidir, bir öyküdür de ve kendini son derece gerçek ÅŸeylerde göstermesine raÄŸmen, yürümesini saÄŸlayan ÅŸey eninde sonunda gizemlidir.

What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

You asked me earlier,' she said to me, 'whether I believed that justice was merely a personal illusion. I don't have the answer to that,' she said, 'but I know that it is to be feared, feared in every part of you, even as it fells your enemies and crowns you the winner.

As Sophocles said it – how dreadful knowledge of the truth is, when the truth can't help you!

Il destino, ha detto, non è che verità allo stato naturale.