Quotes About Truth

And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?

have misgivings about people not having a spiritual life. It's so Ã¢â'¬Â¦ so shallow. I sometimes think that life without a spiritual dimension must be like being made of cardboard—and as deep and satisfying." She paused. "I feel that there is something there—some force, or truth, perhaps—to put it at its most general. I sense it, and I suppose I'd even go so far as to say that I yearn for it. I want it to be. Maybe that's God.

He had been looking in quite the wrong place-a place of darkness-when he should have been looking in a place of light.

how could anyone manage to negotiate their way through life's complexities without at least a smidgen of self deception here and there? Alexander Mccall Smith Precious and Grace.

You interpret my heart, my nature, as you wish to believe it. In truth, I have no secret longing to be saved from myself.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.

A scrutiny so minute as to bring an object under an untrue angle of vision, is a poorer guide to a man's judgment than a sweeping glance which sees things in their true proportion.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

God will give me justice

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.

death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

It's often been said that "seeing is believing", but in many cases, the reverse is also true. Believing results in seeing.

Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.