Quotes About Truth

The brain is like a good lawyer: given any set of interests to defend, it sets about convincing the world of their moral and logical worth, regardless of whether they in fact have any of either. Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than for virtue.

Bloom relates the story of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering learning that a painting he owned, which he'd thought was a genuine Vermeer, was in fact a forgery. At that moment, according to one observer, Goering looked "as if for the first time he [had] discovered there was evil in the world.

Entonces, la idea es que todo lo significativo que vemos en el mundo es algo que nosotros sobreimponemos en él?». «Exactamente»

To call things in the past inexorable makes more things in the future inexorable. To tell people they're not to blame for past mistakes is to make future mistakes more likely. The truth is hardly guaranteed to set us free.

clearest vision possible.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Las palabras son de elástico, las manos de greda, van guardando las huellas, dicen la verdad sobre las personas. Graban la historia de la persona.

Estoy muerto y quiero vivir. Esa es la verdad.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.

Ay, las casualidades -dijo Quim respirando a pleno pulmón, como el titán de la calle Revillagigedo-, valen verga las casualidades. A la hora de la verdad todo esta escrito. A eso los pinches griegos lo llamaban destino

A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do wholeheartedly is cry.

la relatividad de nuestra memoria que magnifica o empequeñece a discreción, un lenguaje que creemos conocer y que en verdad no conocemos.

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. People are cowards to the last breath. I'm telling you between you and me: the human being, broadly speaking, is the closest thing there is to a rat.

E incluso cabía una opción peor: que Cesárea hubiera torcido la realidad conscientemente.

Un poeta lo puede soportar todo. Lo que equivale a decir que un hombre lo puede soportar todo. Pero no es verdad: son pocas cosas las que un hombre puede soportar. Soportar de verdad. Un poeta, en cambio, lo puede soportar todo. Con esta convicción crecimos. El primer enunciado es cierto, pero conduce a la ruina, a la locura, a la muerte.

I too believe in the intrinsic goodness of human beings, but it means nothing.

Como dicen los gángsters, no es nada personal, Max. Por supuesto, en esa aseveración hay algo de verdad y algo de mentira. Siempre es algo personal. Hemos llegado indemnes a través de un túnel del tiempo porque es algo personal. Te he elegido a ti porque es algo personal

A metafora az egyik módja, hogy elvesszünk a látszat világában, vagy hogy mozdulatlanul álljunk a látszat tengerében.

Sólo la poesía no está contaminada, sólo la poesía está fuera del negocio. No sé si me entiende, maestro. Sólo la poesía, y no toda, eso que quede claro, es alimento sano y no mierda.