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Truth Quotes
"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
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"This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"Look for the original. Everything else is just an illusion."
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"The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies... in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you."
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"It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christians can't even keep it right side up today?” The answer is they didn't conform their faith to match the world. They had the truth, and they refused to water it down. They had a faith that would not compromise."
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"Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it."
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"Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth."
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"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."
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"Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study."
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"Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell."
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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
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"There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with 'toys' (interaction with people)."
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"I believe in most men there is a certain amount of violence. Every man has a bit of fight in him, but some of them have to look deeper within themselves, further than most. The fight is there if you search for it; people don't think they've got it at all, but they have got it, like the weakest fucking crony you could see on earth. If someone broke in to the house, I believe he'd fucking have a go rather than somebody hurt his wife and kids; it would press him to his limits. If he's not going to defend his pitch, he's not worth a cup of cold fucking water."
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"Truth is most beautiful undraped."
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"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"Life begins when we get tired of our own bullshit. We must all get bloody tired of our own bullshit, in order for our lives to begin."
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"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
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"A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys."
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"Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth."
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"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."
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"The right to search for the truth implies also a duty, one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth."
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
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