Quotes About Truth

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist, but ripeness comes as well. From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench there comes a violent love.

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.

I have not need to promise what I cannot do.

Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.

I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not what to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Truth comes with pain.

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Facts speak plainer than words

Boasters brag most when they cannot be detected.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

the appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.

ugly plumage

Da bi vidjeli smrt neprijatelja, neki su spremni vidjeti i vlastitu.

Do not malign the words of a sage even if they seem trivial, for they contain the loftiest wisdom.

I don't know, I can't quite get it. Don't try. It's just words. Just words? Just words! We love them so much, you and me. But in the end, they fail us. Because there are truths beyond words.

I don't actually think "true love" is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.