Quotes About Truth

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.