Quotes About Truth

True repentance includes three ingredients: (1) acknowledging the truth (revelation), (2) admitting you were wrong (confession), and (3) adjusting your direction (action).

As soon as I humbled myself and submitted to the Lord, He exposed the lies the Devil had told me and evaporated them in the light of His truth. Through my bitterness and unresolved anger, I had allowed the Devil to show me my wife through his evil eyes.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

One of the great pillars of bad journalism is the made up storyline of "Let's you and him fight" - dreaming up conflicts and story arcs where none exists. http://qr.ae/jpY6b

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.—Noel Coward

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.— Colin Powell

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It is my theory that what others don't see you've eaten doesn't count.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

The next time someone lies to your face, tell them that Boo You Lieeeeee...

Around the corner from home, they stopped to buy a bottle of red wine. Arriving at her apartment door, he could hardly contain his excitement when she turned to him and smiled. "Ready to relax at my place for a while?" "I'd love nothing better than to spend more time with you." And among all the lies he'd told tonight, that was the one big truth he hoped she would remember when the shit hit the fan.

Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time is gone, what does it matter? It's all rain into rivers now.

There is a part of me that wishes you would tell me what I want to hear, but I appreciate that you are being honest about the struggle. It will do," she said. "For now.

What happens when you finally decide to tell the truth and no one listens?

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and our place in it.

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms.

Writers are not nice people. We can't be.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up.

what's real within the story is real within the story

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up. It's easier to research a historical period than your own life, and it's much easier to deal with things that have a little less emotional weight and where you have a little more detachment. It's terrible advice!

Na própria precisão com que outras passagens lembradas se oferecem, de entre impressões confusas, talvez se agite a maligna astúcia da porção escura de nós mesmos, que tenta incmpreensivelmente enganar-nos, ou, pelo menos, retardar, que prescutemos qualquer verdade.

Ah, o tempo é o mágico de todas as traições... E os próprios olhos, de cada um de nós, padecem viciação de origem, defeitos com que cresceram e a que se afizeram mais e mais.