Truth Quotes

As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.

~ Stephen Chbosky

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

~ Robert Fanney

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: A quiet conscience mades one strong!

~ Anne Frank

Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.

~ T.f. Hodge

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

~ Amy Plum

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

~ Michael Connelly

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

~ Patrick Henry

I only feel like myself when I am alone.

~ Peter Cameron

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

~ Juliet Marillier

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

~ Garth Stein

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

~ Libba Bray

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

~ John Steinbeck

Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

~ Moïra Fowley-Doyle

It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.

~ Jennifer Echols

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

~ Brandon Sanderson

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

~ George Orwell

All I could say was, I don't know what to do. I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

~ Gary Snyder

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

~ Peter Kreeft

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

~ Amy Chua

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of truth. It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

~ T.f. Hodge

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect.

~ Maurice Bucaille

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth.

~ Suzy Kassem

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

~ Yongey Mingyur

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth.

~ A.s. Byatt

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

~ Mary Pickford

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. So why is man your god, and not the Creator?

~ Suzy Kassem

Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows.

~ Octavia E. Butler

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

~ Horace Greeley

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.

~ Tim O'brien

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

~ Oswald Chambers

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

~ Alex Rogers

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

~ Nina George

IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.

~ Stacia Kane

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.

~ Alice Miller