Truth Quotes - Page 188

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Karen Marie Moning

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.

Melina Marchetta

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

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

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Georges Bataille

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Margaret Atwood

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Ayn Rand

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Malcolm X

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao Tzu

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

T.S Eliot

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Wallace Stevens

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

George Bernard Shaw

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Michelle Hodkin

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

The only truth is music.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ernest Hemingway

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

George R.R. Martin

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

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