Quotes About Truth

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough - you have to know how.

You Know what none of us know until we have died. You were dead in the beginning.

You know what man really desires?" inquired the doctor, grinning into the immobile face of the Baron. "One of two things: to find someone who is so stupid that he can lie to her, or to love someone so much that she can lie to him.

One must speak the truth about the past or not at all.

Neuspeh u našoj sredini u?ini ?oveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje se ismejava. Istina mrzi i prezire.

Kaži mi, ali savesno. Istinu. Ho?eš li, to jest, možeš li ti meni biti prijatelj bez obzira na ideje koje zastupam. Uvek, do kraja.

Zar nas tek velika nesre?a zaista vra?a sebi? (...) Ima ne?ega istinski velikog, za um i dušu velikog, u svakoj pravoj nesre?i. Samo u njoj postoji jedna životna istina koje se više ne bi lišio. Nikad.

Verovao sam da je tuga za voljenim bi?em najteža patnja. Sada znam da je no?na hladno?a u rovu teža od svih duševnih patnji. Verovao sam da su muka mišljenja, tajna, duhovni problema najteži ?oveku. Sad znam da ?oveku ništa nije teže od nespavanja. Verovao sam da je istina najzna?ajnija za život, a sada sam siguran da je hleb najpre?e u životu.

Ne veruj ni u Å¡ta Å¡to se na strahu temelji.

?uvaj se re?i, sine! ?uvaj ih se više no svega ljudskog.

Znam, i zlo?in se lakše priznaje od zablude. Inteligentnom ?oveku najteže je da prizna zabludu. Me?utim,samo od njega to se i može o?ekivati.

Od spoljnih nepogoda ljudskog života, najužasnija je nepogoda - Vreme. U radosti ima brzinu svetlosti, u patnji staje. Malo ga imamo za razumevanje sveta u kome smo bez krivice, a osu?eni da ga s mukom shvatamo, svaku istinu preplatimo, najbitnije ne saznamo. No?as se, valjda, kona?no osveš?ujem: ?ovek nema vremena sebe da shvati.

Vi ste vernik? - Jesam. A koji je Vaš Bog? - Budu?nost. Budu?nost? Ne razumem. - Nijedan se Bog ne može razumeti.

A mi dobro pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.

Tako i po tome, u našoj Bolnici vladaju zakoni koji važe i van nje: vladaoci bez vrlina najomiljeniji su vladaoci. Svetina voli one koji vole ono što ona voli, koji ?ine sve što bi oni, dripci, ?inili kad bi bili na vlasti. Rulja mrzi pravdoljupce i istinoljupce, ljude koji poštuju zakone i rade pošteno.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return—that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.

Truth. .. it might make you sad. But somewhere deep inside of you, you know that it is truth. If you can but open yourself up, you know when things are true and when that they are not. For this is available to you.