Quotes About Truth

Montgomery Clift in I Confess?

Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own." Yes:

In the grave I can tell you the truth. I am your own Dunia, but I am also a princess of the jinnias or jiniri. The slits in the world are reopening, so I can come back to see you

It was hard not to ask why me, but he had begun to grasp the difficult truth that a thing could have a cause but that was not the same as having a purpose. Even if you could work out how a certain thing had come about—even if you answered the how question—you would be no closer to solving the why.

Medeniyet, gerçek doÄŸam?z? kendimizden gizleyen bir el çabukluÄŸudur.

Ölümün ölümcüllüÄŸü yaln?zca adaleti deÄŸil, gerçeklendirmeyi de imkans?z k?lar.

Ne yapt???n? duymam bilmem sanma. Kalbini ver yoksa keser al?r?m. AÅŸk bütün dünya ve yukar?daki gökyüzü deÄŸilse hiçbir ÅŸeydir, tozdan k?ymetsizdir.

En aquella metrópoli de lenguas y cuchicheos, ni los oídos más finos oían algo fidedigno

True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal, "and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Is the truth too poor a thing for us? Is any man innocent of embellishing it at times, or even of abandoning it entirely?

that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics

union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was just too neat, and the truth was that evil deeds trumped good ones. It didn't matter, for example, that Hitler was kind to dogs.

A poet's work', he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.' And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him.

You can't keep a devil locked up in the attic and expect to keep it to yourself forever.

One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell may be overpowering, tears may rise to eyes; I hope nevertheless that it will be possible to say of them that they posses the authentic taste of truth...that they are, despite everything, acts of love.

In the world of the real I had learned hard lessons. Lies can cause tragedies, both on the personal and the national scale. Lies can defeat the truth.

I'm beginning to understand why people get religion. Just to have something solid that doesn't change into a slippery snake without a word of warning.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Actually I think it's the left eye that sees the truth," he added. "It sees everything distorted and deformed. Which in fact everything is. The right eye is the one that sees the fiction of normality. So I have truth and lies, one eye for each. It's good.

Desde el principio, los hombres han utilizado a Dios para justificar lo injustificable.