Quotes About Truth

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane… because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom… that's why we murdered Jesus.

Perhaps she had not succeeded in inspiring any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" "No." "Oh! Oh, Miss – Marilla, how much you miss!

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth

I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's 'true to life' or not. It's true to life as it should be and that's a better truth than the other.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this . . . seventeen never knows it.

What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.

not true—it's not, gasped Rilla. The thing would be—ridiculous, said Gertrude Oliver—and then she laughed horribly. Susan

Bunlar? kendine söylemekle baÅŸka insanlardan duymak aras?nda fark var. dedi Anne aÄŸlayarak. 'Bir ÅŸeyin öyle olduÄŸunu bilsen bile, baÅŸka insanlar?n kesin olarak öyle olduÄŸunu düÅŸünmediÄŸini ümit etmekten kendini alam?yorsun.

Hayat? boyunca ona doÄŸruyu öÄŸretecek biri olmad???n? hat?rla.

Marilla somut gerçeÄŸin güvenli yolu dururken, soyutluÄŸun ÅŸüpheli patikalar?na girmeyecekti.

I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round.

there was certainly no need of fine-tooth combs in this case.

Hem Bayan Allan elimizde bir kan?t olmad??? sürece insanlar?n bize doÄŸruyu söylediklerinden ÅŸüphe etmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyledi.

and I think, concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.

cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really true. And Ruby Gillis says—

Did you really say it? Or did I imagine that you did? I think you'd better learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isn't, said Marilla crossly.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

Robert Baxter isn't often known to tell the truth." "Come, come, Cornelia, I think he generally tells the truth, but he changes his opinion so often it sometimes sounds as if he didn't.

Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!