Quotes About Truth

H?nh phúc là má»™t tình tr?ng gá»™i s?ch ?o t??ng, là sá»± d?t b? ?o t??ng.

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

Ng??i ta Ä'ã nuôi mình s?ng b?ng nh?ng ngôn t? rá»—ng tu?ch Ä'úng hÆ¡n là s?ng vá»›i thá»±c t?i.

??ng bi?t chân lý, nhÆ°ng hãy c?m n?m chân lý. Khi b?n c?m n?m ???c chân lý, b?n s? thay ??i. Còn n?u b?n ch? bi?t nó b?ng cái ??u c?a b?n, b?n không thay ??i.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Y no hay solución, porque ni siquiera sospechas que tu percepción está deformada, que piensas de manera equivocada, que tus creencias son falsas.

En primer lugar, tus apegos: inevitablemente, siempre prestarás atención a lo que favorece o pone en peligro dichos apegos, y fingirás no ver lo demás. Lo demás

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

Father, what you said to me was absolutely true but totally useless.' 

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Primera verdad: estás aferrado a una falsa creencia, a saber, la de que sin una cosa o persona determinada no puedes ser feliz.

Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones,' Rex [Browning] says, 'and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet. [Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis]

But what was family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time. If he had learned anything it was the family was not so much what you were given as what you were able to maintain.

No," she says. "I want to believe that Papa hasn't been anywhere near it.

God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing.

So many human beings, none of them seeing clearly.

he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.

Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

You and I will never reach Beta Oph2, dear, and that is a painful truth. But in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being a part of an enterprise that will outlast you.