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Truth Quotes


"I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth."


"Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable."


"There are no facts only interpretations."


"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."


"It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are."


"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."


"No one determines your truth but you.You can't paint your own self-portrait with someone else's hand."



"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."


"Don't say bullshit, don't lie what you saw in the film The Seasoning you will do it, I will do it and many other people. It was a fact which was true, but it was out of the stage, who has written it knows a lot of about it, if you meet such person, try to get everything make notes and probably like some kind a book or make an a article about this. Because a lot of people are behind such story..., but you are to young to understand and to stupid to find it."


"If the universe is made of information then, we are moving from a state of profound truth to a state of meaningless gibberish."



"But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear."



"Percy stared at his jelly donut. He had a rocky history with Nico di Angelo. The guy had once tricked him into visiting Hades's palace, and Percy had ended up in a cell. But most of the time, Nico sided with the good guys. He certainly didn't deserve slow suffocation in a bronze jar, and Percy couldn't stand seeing Hazel in pain."We'll rescue him," he promised her. "We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death."


"A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth."


"We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Artists and philosophers must be subversive: we need these rebellious cynics to ask questions, they must resist cultural norms; seek out truths that are not self-evident and challenge everything. Doubt, not blind belief, is essential for discovering truth."


"The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you."


"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none."


"I believe that if there is a huge chunk of white/truth in you, you will be drawn mostly to truth. If there is a lot of black/ego in you, you will naturally migrate to darkness/ego. We can't change our natural compositions or our attraction to certain lighting, but we can slowly change our angle of perception. Anyone can work on balancing their inner lighting simply by adjusting their outer lenses. All you have to do is learn to use your heart before your mind to see things. There is no light greater than truth, and it shines at the heart of all creation. Be like a butterfly and celebrate it every day. It is inside you. Be aware of it so it can cultivate it to grow stronger and bigger."



"He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx."


"The cult of self has become an addiction-feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance."


"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident."


"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."


"Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense."



"If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid."


"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings " much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."



"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."


"The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there."


"Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true."


"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."


"There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."
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