Quotes About Truth

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.

Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal.

Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious.

Don't you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let's have both if we can, but let's be sure of having one or the other.

I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.

Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?

He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.

When real things are so wonderful, what is the point of pretending?

How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself—hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth—their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.

It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'—that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true.

Untrue; but then, so is most information.

The real thing's money and all the rest is a dream.

Not even to herself dare she blame Helen. She could not assess her trespass by any moral code; it was everything or nothing. Morality can tell us that murder is worse than stealing, and group most sins in an order all must approve, but it cannot group Helen. The surer its pronouncements on this point, the surer may we be that morality is not speaking. Christ was evasive when they questioned Him. It is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.

The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.

It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

M]en were not gods after all, but as human and clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help... the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence.

He had stopped loving Maurice and should have to say so plainly.

La Máquina es mucho, pero no lo es todo. Ahora veo a algo que se parece a ti en esta placa, pero no te veo a ti. Oigo algo que se parece a ti en este teléfono, pero no te oigo a ti.