Truth Quotes

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be along process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

~ Haruki Murakami

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

~ Criss Jami

El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.

~ René Descartes

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.

~ Harper Lee

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

~ Sean Penn

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

~ William Faulkner

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

~ Franz Kafka

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

~ Edmund Burke

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.

~ Byron Katie

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.

~ Criss Jami

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

~ John F. Kennedy

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

~ Cassandra Clare

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

~ David Levithan

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

~ Blaise Pascal

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

~ Lemmy Kilmister

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: 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.

~ Milan Kundera

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

~ Gregory David Roberts

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

~ Anne Brontë

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

~ Jodi Picoult

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

~ Isaac Newton

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

~ Audre Lorde

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

~ Terry Goodkind

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

~ C.s. Lewis

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

~ George R.r. Martin

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

~ Suzanne Collins

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

~ Kobayashi Issa

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

~ Anaïs Nin

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

~ Terry Pratchett

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

~ Joe Abercrombie

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

~ L.m. Montgomery

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

~ David Sedaris

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

~ Audre Lorde

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

~ Deepak Chopra

You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day. said LionheartTigerclaw growled. Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack

~ Erin Hunter