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Truth Quotes


"I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle."


"There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth."


"The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life."


"Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught." Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe in them or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees."


"Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false."


"Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world's stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp " and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it's immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble."


"The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood."


"Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth."


"TRUTHWhenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever,Let that scare you;For whenever you Stand up for God, By him, You are loved."


"Were a million people to believe in bullshit, it yet is just bull crap."


"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."


"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"


"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."


"It is a fact that the USA corporate government routinely lies to its mass population."


"You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope."


"Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth."


"Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay."



"Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently be tempted to give in to the exhilarating perfume of fables and fairy tales or to flattering praise and fiction. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"


"Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living."


"Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true."


"Be true to your love to be true to yourself."


"The truth brings people closer together."


"One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie."


"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."



"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?""Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?"Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break."Yes," I said."


"If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.Remember: Just because it's black and white, doesn't automatically make it a zebra."
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