Quotes About Truth

It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way.

And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.

History was haunted by the ghosts of buried crimes, which required periodic exorcisms of truth. Actions had consequences. Will

Rest. Then speak of what you know. Show them what you have seen. Witness until their comfort yields to questions. Till their eyes cry with truth. Till their ears would hear the voices of tomorrow. Till their hearts, heavy with knowledge, beat in understanding.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

You see, Mr. Phillips, the truth of it is, I am so very American." She slapped the pen down on the onerous paper and slid them both toward her boss. "And that is precisely why I can't—no, why I refuse to sign this.

it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate the disappointment of who his son really was.

Trust me: If God exists, he'll know I'm faking it.

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. This light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right

What place lay beyond the reach of evil?

Si Evie había aprendido alguna verdad a lo largo de su corta vida, era que el perdón era más sencillo de buscar que el permiso. Aunque tampoco tenía intención de pedir ninguna de las dos cosas.

But more and more Memphis had begun to ask himself if there had ever been order, or if order was one more myth people repeated so they didn't have to think too much about the violence lurking just under the surface of every polite exchange, every façade of "civilization." And just whom did "order" serve?

But people rarely want the truth. We say that we want it when, really, we like being lied to. We prefer the ether of hope.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

spread the rumor and, before anyone knows, it's a fact

The truth] is what actually happens. Not what you want to happen. Not what you're afraid will happen. We make up stories when we want things to happen or are afraid they may happen. And sometimes we do it for fun-or to scare people or make them do our way or to hurt them. And sometimes we do it because it's a pretty story and we tell it just as we fly a kite or send balloons floating.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.

Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.

I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss. Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount Everest was just a hill.

Faithfulness." She thought of her second fiance, the bastard. "Life's too short to waste it on someone you can't trust. You should be able to depend on the man you love not to lie to you or cheat on you. If you have that as a base, you can work on the other stuff.