Quotes About Truth

and confronting the civic hypocrites who put care in the language but seldom in the budget.

Humility is reality to the full.

old ways of doing things. It is the ability to make ancient truth the living memory of today. Only the elderly have lived through both the good and the bad decisions of the past. It is they, then, who have the wisdom to alert us to alternatives, to evaluate present choices from the perspective of history. The role of

Are you Jesus? people ask us silently every day. And the answer liturgical spirituality forms in us if we live it with constancy, with regularity, with fidelity, is surely, yes.

My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion.

There will be people then who will remember that once we lived in harmony with the earth and all its creatures, and they will speak. Some will argue, refuse to listen. But others will hear the message, will know in their hearts that those who seek to protect the earth speak truth. Their numbers will swell and slowly, very slowly, the web of life will be restored.

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Sensibility, in Austen's time, meant relying on one's feelings as a guide to behavior, as a guide to truth.

I don't expect to have a fully verified story of how Jo's disorder developed, but I don't think that historical accuracy is as important as what I call "emotional truth." People attach different levels of significance to the same events. No two participants in any event remember it in exactly the same way. A single broken promise, for example, among thousands of promises kept, might not be remembered by a parent, but may never be forgotten by the child who was disappointed. (34)

The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities, provides some coherent past, then that is far better than the blankness I have. Whatever inaccuracies may occur because of the passage of time or because of the colored intensity of "emotional truth" harm no one. All that matters is that I gain a firm grasp on what is real. (165)

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

Iris Murdoch defined humility as a "selfless respect for reality.

Dios no te da normalmente una verdad para que la escondas. Es para ayudar a otros en su andar cristiano. Solamente

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…

The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists.

no one who has ever lived through the unmasking of one ideology, taken uncritically as the truth about human life, will be quite as vulnerable to the absolutizing of another. -Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

Once people start identifying themselves or others as "permanently enlightened people," the bullshit begins.

Nobody else can see us, because we have no objective existence whatsoever, and we cannot see anybody else because they have none.

We know in our deepest heart of hearts that unconditional love is somehow more true – more fundamental, more real, more radical (at the root) – than hate, which always seems to be confused, deluded, reactive, divisive and false. Love breeds love, and hate breeds hate. We all experience this.

how widespread is the view that a criminal trial is not about determining facts and repairing the breach crime creates in the social fabric but about enlisting state power for the satisfaction of the aggrieved individual.