Quotes about the truth

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“Hell is truth known too late.”

“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”

“I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.”

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

“Anything more than the truth would be too much.”

“What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.”

“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”

“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.”

“When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.”

“The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief.”

“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

“But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.”

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

“The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”

“To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.”

“We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.”

“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”

“The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”

“Truth springs from argument amongst friends.”

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

“The prince's robes and beggar's rags,
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can invent”

“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”

“The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.”

“May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”

“I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)”

“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.”

“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

“Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses… Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.”

“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”

“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”

“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

“some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.”

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”

“I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around
purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.”

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

“The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.”

“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

“Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.”

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

“Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.”

“Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.”

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”

“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”

“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.”

“There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”

“Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.”

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

“Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”

“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”

“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a fact or a weapon?”

“The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.”

“The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.”

“And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”

“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”

“… because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation. It's a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.”

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

“The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just.”

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.”

“When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”

“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”

“You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”

“Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.”

“It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”

“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”

“Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”

“Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.”

“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

“The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.”

“If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.”

“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

“The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.”

“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.”

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

“Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.”