Quotes About Truth

you look the truth in the face - not the truth that has fangs and fur but the hard truth about yourself, that you're just as dangerous as the beings the rest of the people fear but you can't afford to be as honest about it. You can't tell those people that you'll make deals with what they fear in order to keep them sage from the monsters who look just like them.

Easy enough to say you come from a wealthy family if no one can verify that fact.

Most people aren't going to want to admit that the monsters in this case not only look human but are human.

On the other hand, he firmly believed that ignorance was bullshit, not bliss.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

Speaking a story can be an act of letting in light.

He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies must needs lie down in the bed of sorrow.

But to tell you the truth, Mr. Boarham, it is on my own account I principally object; so let us - drop the subject, for it is worse than useless to pursue it any further

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.

M: ... but everytime I start in everytime I everytime you see I would have to tell the whole story all over again or else lie so I lie I just lie who are they who are the storytellers who can put an end to stories

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

Facts are bigger in the dark.

Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.

But when justice is done the world drops away.

I am not a person who feels easy talking about blood or desire. I rarely used the word woman myself. But such things are the natural facts of what we are, I suppose we have to follow out these signs in the endless struggle against forgetting. The truth is, I lived out my adolescence mainly in default of my father's favor. But I perceived that I could trouble him less if I had no gender.

The poached egg on your plate at breakfast is not dirt. The poached egg on page 202 of the Greek lexicon in the library of the British Museum is dirt.

Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.

To abolish seduction is a mother's goal. She will replace it with what is real - products.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Are these words true? At the second: Are they necessary? At the third: Are they kind?

I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to reveal it.