Quotes About Truth

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.

Only a fool would blindly believe everything she was told.

Authors Note: This is a sketchbook, a collection of my impressions of Iran and its people. For the most part, I have painted situations as they occurred, present voices as precisely as possible. At times, I have made collages of stories and faces, as often to protect the identities of people as to lend artistry to a scene. As is the case with many portraits, their truth is not in their detail, but their spirit.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

the weight of evidence 'cannot convince those who do not wish to believe

Josephine Tey's novel, The Daughter of Time (1951)

Could it be true? This glorious, fresh-faced young man, this Adonis - for Nature surely could not have done more for him - still wanted to marry her!

I would rather a simple ploughman could read it and make up his own mind than see the Church continue to manipulate the Bible to its own ends.

You are who you think you are. You are what you remember.' 'You sure about that?' 'If you're not, then what the fuck are you?' 'What if you don't remember anything?' 'Ah,' Jason said, 'then you're in trouble.

B?rbaÅ£ii ÅŸi femeile sînt diferiÅ£i. Nu sînt mai buni sau mai r?i — ci diferiÅ£i. Singurul lucru pe care îl au în comun este faptul c? aparÅ£in aceleiaÅŸi specii. Ei tr?iesc în lumi diferite, cu valori diferite ÅŸi conform unor reguli diferite. Toat? lumea ÅŸtie asta, dar foarte puÅ£ini oameni, ÅŸi mai ales foarte puÅ£ini b?rbaÅ£i, sînt dispuÅŸi s-o recunoasc?. Acesta e totuÅŸi adev?rul.

Cuando los hombres mienten, el lenguaje de su cuerpo puede ser evidente. Cuando las mujeres mienten, prefieren aparentar estar ocupadas.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

Prophetic poetry has alway drawn me. . . . Prophecy is not ingratiating poetry, and I like that [Prophecy and Poetry, Out of the Garden ].

The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, 'So far, so good!

unravel the brainwashing and follow your instincts.

movie Twelve Angry Men.

Our classification of mental disorders is no more than a collection of fallible and limited constructs that seeks but never finds the truth - but this remains our best current way of communicating about, treating, and researching mental disorders. [...] It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.

Candor disarms paranoia.

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one's own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others