Quotes About Truth

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon

who were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality. . .

First word … best word.

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

but I will die only for poetry, that will save the world

If anybody wants a statement of values - it is this, that I am ready to die for poetry and for the truth that inspires poetry - and will do so in any case - as all men, wether they like it or not-.

La memoria es ficción. Seleccionamos lo más brillante y lo más oscuro, ignorando lo que nos avergüenza, y así bordamos el ancho tapiz de nuestra vida

People believe what they want to believe. They see no evil because they don't want to. But evil is out there, and this is the result. The holy man gestured to the dead girls. You might not see the evil, Officer Kincaid, but you can see its handiwork right here.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo…

Have you ever stood still while someone lied to you? If so, you know the sickening feeling. Your brain wants to make the situation less disturbing, and oh, how you want to convince yourself the liar is telling the truth.

It's okay," I said, holding her, starting to cry myself. "It's not okay," said Jane. "But it's the way it is.

If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid.

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero hay muchas cosas viejas que nosotros no sabemos.

TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.