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Truth Quotes
"And a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing, a very serious thing indeed."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."
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"Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody likes to see himself described as he is, or cares to see exactly set down what he said and did. Well, even i can understand that - because i don't like it myself when I am the sitter not the portraitist: the frailty of egos- and the more accurate the strokes, the greater the resentment."
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"Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both. Knowledge holds the truth."
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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"Both my parents had a great influence on me. I never heard my father use a profane or even a slang word. I always respected him because of his complete integrity. In his business dealings his handshake was like a contract. He was as good as his word. Of all the people I have ever known, my mother had the greatest influence on me."
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"When you believe the truth about yourself, the truth that people are created to solve problems and overcome the limitations of their nature you make a name for yourself."
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"The aquatic environment must be safeguarded by men. God created mankind to care for the environment and all the living resources."
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"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
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"Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle."
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"Seek for truth,you'll find me;Peek for lies,you'll blind me."
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"The important thing is not to lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others. Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others."
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"Pilate's skeptical sneer 'What is truth?' was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word."
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"We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond."
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"When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction."
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"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."
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"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."
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"My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own witness, each with a separate version of culture and history, and the divine essential fire that is poetry itself."
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"The truth is sometimes lost in translation when the facts are not understood."
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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
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"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']"
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"There is little more powerful than when truth joins action."
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"Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth."
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"If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living."
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"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."
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"Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior."
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"Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise."
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