Quotes About Truth 2017

“I'm selfish...!!! impatient and a little insecure...!!! I make mistakes...!!! I am out of control and at times hard to handle...!!! But if you can't handle me at my worst...!!! then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best...!!!”

“If you tell the truth...!!! you don't have to remember anything...!!!”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept...!!!”

“When someone loves you...!!! the way they talk about you is different...!!! You feel safe and comfortable...!!!”

“The truth...!!!" Dumbledore sighed...!!! "It is a beautiful and terrible thing...!!! and should therefore be treated with great caution...!!!”

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes...!!!”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it...!!!”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple...!!!”

“The truth will set you free...!!! but first it will piss you off...!!!”

I am not pretty...!!! I am not beautiful...!!! I am as radiant as the sun...!!!

“I am not pretty...!!! I am not beautiful...!!! I am as radiant as the sun...!!!”

“When I despair...!!! I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won...!!! There have been tyrants and murderers...!!! and for a time...!!! they can seem invincible...!!! but in the end...!!! they always fall...!!! Think of it--always...!!!”

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood...!!!”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored...!!!”

“I believe in everything until it's disproved...!!! So I believe in fairies...!!! the myths...!!! dragons...!!! It all exists...!!! even if it's in your mind...!!! Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy...!!! men are stupid...!!! And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid...!!!”

“Above all...!!! don't lie to yourself...!!! The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him...!!! or around him...!!! and so loses all respect for himself and for others...!!! And having no respect he ceases to love...!!!”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it...!!!”

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act...!!!”

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth...!!! but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened...!!!”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person...!!! Give him a mask...!!! and he will tell you the truth...!!!”

“The unexamined life is not worth living...!!!”

“I lie to myself all the time...!!! But I never believe me...!!!”

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed...!!! If people all over the world...!!!...!!!...!!!would do this...!!! it would change the earth...!!!”

“Truth is stranger than fiction...!!! but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't...!!!”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you...!!!”

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it...!!!”

“Tell the truth...!!! or someone will tell it for you...!!!”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth...!!!”

“The more I see...!!! the less I know for sure...!!!”

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...!!! You trade in your reality for a role...!!! You trade in your sense for an act...!!! You give up your ability to feel...!!! and in exchange...!!! put on a mask...!!! There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution...!!! on an individual level...!!! It's got to happen inside first...!!!”

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone...!!! but the things you do for others remain as your legacy...!!!”

“The truth is...!!! unless you let go...!!! unless you forgive yourself...!!! unless you forgive the situation...!!! unless you realize that the situation is over...!!! you cannot move forward...!!!”

“Rather than love...!!! than money...!!! than fame...!!! give me truth...!!!”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them...!!!”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“There are no facts...!!! only interpretations...!!!”

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

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

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves...!!! the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image...!!! If in loving them we do not love what they are...!!! but only their potential likeness to ourselves...!!! then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

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

“The past has no power over the present moment...!!!”

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

“No persons are more frequently wrong...!!! than those who will not admit they are wrong...!!!”

“A truth that's told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“To be fully seen by somebody...!!! then...!!! and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous...!!!”

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

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

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

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

“I'm about to make a wild...!!! extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes...!!! The word "busy" is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction...!!! It seems like a good excuse...!!! but in fact in every silo you uncover...!!! all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call...!!! Remember men are never to busy to get what they want...!!!”

“The truth isn't always beauty...!!! but the hunger for it is...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“Life's as kind as you let it be...!!!”

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

“There are two ways to be fooled...!!! One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true...!!!”

“Love truth...!!! but pardon error...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“Equality is not a concept...!!! It's not something we should be striving for...!!! It's a necessity...!!! Equality is like gravity...!!! We need it to stand on this earth as men and women...!!! and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition...!!! It is life out of balance...!!! and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it...!!! We need equality...!!! Kinda now...!!!”

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

“Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust...!!! If he can't lay this one stupid brick down...!!! you ain't never gonna have a house baby...!!! and it's cold outside...!!!”

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

“I envy people that know love...!!! That have someone who takes them as they are...!!!”

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

“One swing set...!!! well worn but structurally sound...!!! seeks new home...!!! Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon...!!! It's all fragile and fleeting...!!! dear reader...!!! but with this swing set...!!! your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely...!!! and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick...!!! no matter how high you get...!!! you can't go all the way around...!!!”

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin...!!! Elven rogue)...!!!”

“But when it came right down to it...!!! the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it...!!! It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb...!!! but somewhere else...!!! deeper...!!! more secret...!!! and a whole lot harder to get...!!!”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age...!!! A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything...!!!”

“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?”

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

“The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier...!!! neatley wrapped lies”

“Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious...!!! Be brave...!!! my sweet...!!! I know you can get lonely...!!! I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts...!!! But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there...!!! What other choice is there?”

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

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

“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...!!!”

“Believe those who are seeking the truth...!!! Doubt those who find it...!!!”

“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...!!!”

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

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk...!!!”

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

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

“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...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more...!!! and love you more...!!! than telling the truth...!!!”

“You don’t believe things because they make your life better...!!! you believe them because they’re true...!!!”

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

“A fit...!!! healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”

“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...!!!”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination...!!!”

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow...!!! for tomorrow will worry about its own things...!!! Sufficient for the day is its own trouble...!!! Matthew 6:34”

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours...!!!”

“Oh...!!! what a tangled web we weave...!!!...!!!...!!!when first we practice to deceive...!!!”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake...!!!”

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers...!!! They get more aggravated...!!! more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths...!!!”

“With a secret like that...!!! at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant...!!! The fact that you kept it does not...!!!”

“I felt like an animal...!!! and animals don’t know sin...!!! do they?”

“Be mindful...!!! Be grateful...!!! Be positive...!!! Be true...!!! Be kind...!!!”

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth...!!!”

“But you can't make people listen...!!! They have to come round in their own time...!!! wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them...!!! It can't last...!!!”

“The best lies were always mixed with truth...!!!”

“I’m not sure...!!! But there’s something about the darkness...!!! the stillness of this hour...!!! I think...!!! that creates a language of its own...!!! There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment...!!! tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets...!!! We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise...!!! But in the moment...!!! at least...!!! we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light...!!!”

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know...!!!”

“You’re not obligated to win...!!! You’re obligated to keep trying...!!! To the best you can do everyday...!!!”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself...!!!”

“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity...!!! He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God...!!! Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger...!!! There is no any mystery and secret in it...!!!”

“What's done cannot be undone...!!!”

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid...!!! I hate this commercialism...!!! It’s all artificial...!!! and has nothing to do with real love...!!!”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right...!!! I will happily change...!!! for I seek the truth...!!! by which no one was ever truly harmed...!!! It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed...!!!”

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it...!!!”

“History...!!! Stephen said...!!! is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake...!!!”

“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...!!!”

“Boredom: the desire for desires...!!!”

“Nothing is ever certain...!!!”

“Man is always prey to his truths...!!! Once he has admitted them...!!! he cannot free himself from them...!!!”

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others...!!!”

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable...!!!”

“It is an illusion that youth is happy...!!! an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them...!!! and each time they come in contact with the real...!!! they are bruised and wounded...!!! It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read...!!! ideal by the necessity of selection...!!! and the conversation of their elders...!!! who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness...!!! prepare them for an unreal life...!!! They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies...!!! lies...!!! lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life...!!!”

“Knowing can be a curse on a person's life...!!! I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth...!!! and I didn't know which one was heavier...!!! Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question...!!! though...!!! because once you know the truth...!!! you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies...!!! Heavier or not...!!! the truth is yours now...!!!”

“Nothing is real...!!!”

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us...!!!”

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves...!!! the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves...!!! is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently...!!!”

“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth...!!!”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity...!!! goodness...!!! and truth...!!!”

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience...!!! anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life...!!! Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you...!!! Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you...!!!”

“Wait a second...!!!" Four says...!!! I turn toward him...!!! wondering which version of Four I'll see now-the one who scolds me...!!! or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me...!!! He smiles a little...!!! but the smile doesn't spread to his eyes...!!! which look less tense and worried...!!!