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To be taught what TRUE LOVE is .....also teaches you NEVER TO LOVE AGAIN ...for true love comes once in a lifetime and last for all eternity ~DC~
— Lini D Clarke
Silence is a powerful tool.
— Na, I'll Be Seeing You
Tell the truth no matter who it hurts.
— Zarina Bibi
You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
— Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
— G.K. Chesterton
We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.
— Na, I'll Be Seeing You
he looked at her, stripped naked for the instant of verbiage and deceit.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Memories that you remember are Truth of your life .....
— Adil Adam Memon
Heart - FamilyBody - LazyMind - WorkSoul - Happy
— Adil Adam Memon
Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.
— James Rozoff
Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.
— Lev Shestov, Athens and Jerusalem
Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Success will not come when you read success Quotations .It won't leave once you inspired and apply it.
— Pradeep
True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.
— James Rozoff
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.
— Jon Paul Fiorentino, Indexical Elegies
A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.
— James Rozoff
The fishhook catches the fish
—  the truth catches the lie
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.
— James Rozoff
Update your truth! There is no soul
—  there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters!
Truth is only what we like to hear....
— Adil Adam Memon
Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .
— Carlous Ruiz Zafon
Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,—The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,—Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
— Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.
— Hannah Harrington, Speechless
The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of theaudience.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate “deeper” truths, such as “1 and 1 make 1” (for lovers), or “1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1” (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus-sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window-pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds -more evidence of the same? It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called “addition”, and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere? Somewhere, if you try to look it up, you can probably fin a statement such as, “There are 17 languages in India, and 462 dialects.” There is something strange about the precise statements like that, when the concepts “language” and “dialect” are themselves fuzzy.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you fromMidnight to midday and midnight.Look around:See how things all come alive-By death! Alive!Speaks true who speaks shadow.But now the place shrinks, where you stand:Where now, shadow-stripped, where?Climb. Grope upwards.Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!Finer: a threadThe star wants to descend on:So as to swim down beliow, down hereWhere it sees itself shimmer:in the swellOf wandering words.
— Paul Celan
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined darkness, to stay a while longer with his submissive tongue straining upward into her asshole. But she moves away. The fur evaporates from his hands. She orders him to masturbate for her. She has watched Captain Blicero with Gottfried, and has learned the proper style.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.
— Frederick Weisel
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make
— Ollie Slaney
Truth without love, isn't.
— Shane Hipps, Selling Water by the River: A Book about the Life Jesus Promised and the Religion That Gets in the Way
In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.
— Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
I died last night. Seventy years too young.
— Colin Thompson
I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.
— Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon
Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal
— emma mckenzie
Why do you give way to your ego and pride. Where does it stand in the ocean of time.
— Naveen Rajeev
Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
The truth﻿ about life will change this world into heaven and you into an immortal spiritual being.
— Mohammad Salman B. Sanayon
Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.
— Lionel Suggs
The Trial of Poppy Moon is free over Easter.
— John Corder
You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
— Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
— Blaise Pascal
Everything that is,casts a shadow
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.
— Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.
— Mollie Marti
High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self.
— Mollie Marti
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
— Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
— Oliver Cromwell.
The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.
— Ramona Ausubel, No One is Here Except All of Us
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
— Todd McFarlane
Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.
— Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
— Knight of the woeful countenance
Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author that allows that person some control over how it is replicated and used.In other words, the claim that lies beneath the notion of intellectual property is similar or identical to the one that underpins notions of privacy. It seems to me that the two are inseparable, because they are fundamentally aspects of the same issue, the need we have to be able to do something by convention that is impossible by force: the need to ringfence certain information. I believe that the most important unexamined notion - for policymakers and agitators both - in these debates is that they are one: you can't persuade people on the one hand to abandon intellectual property (a decision which, incidentally, would mean an even more massive upheaval in the way the world runs than we've seen so far since 1990) and hope to keep them interested in privacy. You can't trash privacy and hope to retain a sense of respect for IP.
— Nick Harkaway, The Blind Giant
This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand.
— John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.
— Umberto Eco, Numele trandafirului
We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.
— Newton Gatambia
Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.
— Wil Zeus
Congenital disease can warp the heart with great variety. Valves can be sealed tight, missing parts—or absent altogether. Major vessels can be misplaced, narrowed, or blocked completely. A chamber can be too small or missing, a wall too thick or thin. The heart’s electrical system—its nerves—may go haywire. The muscle can be weak. Holes may occur almost anywhere, in almost any size. Studying heart pathology, one is reminded that the genetic symphony that produces a normal baby is indeed a wondrous and delicate one.
— G. Wayne Miller, King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
On the path to truth, you can’t see many people; truth’s way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm Grateful to say I'm Grateful
— Eric Oneil Smith Jr
The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story’s silent twin. There are so many things that we can’t say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent.Do you remember the story of Philomel who is raped and then has her tongue ripped out by the rapist so that she can never tell? I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
— David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.
— E.E. Cummings
Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.
— Jessica Zafra, Womenagerie and Other Tales from the Front
Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
— Lisa Unger
See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.
— Velyn Cooper
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.
— Markus Zusak, Underdog
What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.
— Albert Camus
I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
— Deb Caletti, The Story of Us
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.
— Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction
... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber
It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.
— John Irving, In One Person
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Nunca habría sido capaz de decírselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo decía a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de eso. También era consciente de lo bien que me sentía al ser capaz de decirle a alguien lo que pensaba de veras. Aunque solo fuera sobre música.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell.
— Dakota Dawn
... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...
— José Saramago, The Cave
Cressida: My lord, will you be true?Troilus: Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault:Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,I with great truth catch mere simplicity;Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.Fear not my truth: the moral of my witIs "plain and true"; there's all the reach of it.
— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.
— Nema Al-Araby
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.
— Michael Eric Dyson, Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson
When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea of those pretended goods that a future state has in reserve for him, let him be solaced, let him be succoured; or, at least, let him be permitted to enjoy the fruit of his labour; let not his substance be ravaged from him by cruel imposts; let him not be discouraged from work, by finding all his labour inadequate to support his existence, let him not be driven into that idleness that will surely lead him on to crime: let him consider his present existence, without carrying his views to that which may attend him after his death: let his industry be excited; let his talents be rewarded; let him be rendered active, laborious, beneficent, and virtuous, in the world he inhabits; let it be shown to him that his actions are capable of having an influence over his fellow men, but not on those imaginary beings located in an ideal world.
— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach
It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.
— E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything
Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair." The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?
— Steven L. Peck
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
— David Baldacci, The Whole Truth
There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.
— Samantha *
100% of a Guru’s marketing plan depends on you holding the belief that you are not enough
—  that you were created less equipped than necessary to fulfill your purpose. What if you let go of that belief and connected with the truth of your innate power to change and shape your life? You ARE enough. You CAN change and shape your own life. Anyone who tells you different is simply lying. Your life has immeasurable potentiality for greatness
Strangely enough, I don't seem to tolerate food in great quantities or when it is too rich anymore.”“That's perfectly all right. Most people dig their graves with their own teeth as it is.
— Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
— Charles Darwin
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
— David Gemmell, Dark Moon
Stories are not like the real world
—  they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
— Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.
— Alan Watt, The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within
Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
— K.P. Yohannan, Living in the Light of Eternity
Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger.
— Hui-Neng
When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.
— David Mitchell, number9dream
The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte
— Juliet Barker, The Brontës: A Life in Letters
Wedded she some years, and to a manOf fifty, and such husbands are in plenty;And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty...
— George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn parks. Another way to make your place is TV. A bright, brash place, always well lit, full of fun and jokes that tell you when to laugh so you never miss them. World news carefully edited so that it’s not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren’t born in a foreign country. News with music to tell you who to hate, who to feel sorry for, and who laugh at.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
— Winston S. Churchill
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.
— James Webb Young, A Technique for Producing Ideas
In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers.
— Col. Thomas Aspinwall
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds—that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
— Norah Vincent, Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin
I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.
— Frank O'Connor, Collected Stories
Against an oath
—  the truth thou art unsure.
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.
— Joseph Conrad
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.
— Langston Hughes
In simplicity there is truth.
— River Phoenix
I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies...they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they've painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out!
— C. JoyBell C.
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
— Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.
— Raymond E. Feist, Prince of the Blood
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him.
— Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi
Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.
— Tedd Tripp
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.
— Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
— Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out
Living in this world will change you,” she confides. “It makes me value life. When a friend has a healthy baby, I don’t think it’s normal; I think it’s a fucking miracle.
— Michael Ruhlman, Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and not to hide facts which could give a different complexion to a matter, but on subsequent thought she had revised her position.Although she still believed that one should be frank in answers to questions, this duty arose only where there was an obligation, based on a reasonable expectation, to make a full disclosure. There was no duty to reveal everything in response to a casual question by one who had no right to the information.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And one more demand: I expect the novelist to aspire to improve the world. ... As a novelist, I want to be more than one more dog barking at the other dogs barking at me. Not out of any foolish hope that one novelist, or all virtuous novelists in chorus, can make much of a difference for good, except in the long run, but out of the need to prevent the human world from relaxing into something worse. To maintain the tension between truth and falsity, beauty and ugliness, good and evil. ... I believe the highest duty of the serious novelist is, whatever the means or technique, to be a critic of his society, to hold society to its own ideals, or if these ideals are unworthy, to suggest better ideals.
— Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
— Norton Juster, As Silly as Knees, As Busy as Bees: An Astounding Assortment of Similes
I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality
— Phoebe Kitanidis, Glimmer
Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been the seat and soul of abrogating freedom of speech, if the first assault on its freedom can be said to be restricting, or handcuffing speech. The day she heard “redneck” on NPR, she turned NPR off, not because broadcasters were still using the term, but because she knew one day they would not be. In fact, she had a vision of the quiet moment backstage at a Boston studio when a good, surprised correspondent was let go for saying “redneck” the last time it would be said.
— Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former then you've become too full of yourself.
— Ryan Cayne
Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away as she could, and then watching to see what would happen next, what would roll back to her, what would have gotten left behind.
— Beth Neff, Getting Somewhere
In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed to relieve yourself out of the former than you've become too full of yourself.
— Ryan Cayne
If only, we could stop taking our job as an OPPORTUNITY and work honestly as a DUTY, this world would be a much better, peaceful and loving place to live in.
— m.ralte
She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to protest the raping of the environment, which was irretrievably lost to the raping by that point.And this would be the great soothing cathedral music, the stopping of the chainsaws amid the patter of acid rain, that all good citizens would listen to for the quarter-century it took them all to wire up to cyberspace and forget about the lost hopeless run-over gang-ridden land, reproducing madly still all the while, inside their bunkers listening to NPR.
— Padgett Powell, Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
That was one of the inherent flaws of faith. Belief without knowing. But worse yet: belief without action. It could be good in its own right. Beautiful, even, when embraced, but that had to be measured. Checked. Too many surrendered themselves to it. What they did not see was simple fact. Religion did not bring peace. It merely offered a means. It was up to man to create peace.
— Chris Galford, The Hollow March
I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.
— Siriworn Kaewkan, The Murder Case of Tok Imam Storpa Karde
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.
— Harlan Coben, Tell No One
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
— Amos Tversky
It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent people are afraid when someone says, "This is the truth", or even "I have the truth". We never have it, at best is has us. No one will dispute that one must be careful and cautious in claiming the truth. But simply to dismiss it as unattainable is really destructive.(...) We must have the courage to dare to say: Yes, man must seek the truth; he is capable of truth. It goes without saying that truth requires criteria for verification and falsification. It must always be accompanied by tolerance, also. But then truth also points out to us those constant values which have made mankind great. That is why the humility to recognize the truth and to accept it as a standard has to be relearned and practiced again. The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; this is the central theme of John's Gospel: When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that he himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through his Passion and thereby also implements it.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times - A Conversation with Peter Seewald
Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.
— Melanie Tem, The Man on the Ceiling
...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.
— James H. Cone
We didn't try to force God's hand or do the "I just heard a sermon about David and Goliath so I need to quit my job right this second" leap of faith that's so popular in Christian circles. We took our time with the decision, like another guy in the Bible, named Jesus. He spent thirty years in obscurity before he started his adventure. Often, we're not willing to spend thirty minutes in preparation, never mind thirty years, especially when we come home from a conference and find our day jobs waiting for us on Monday morning. I'm not sure why Christians sometimes think the maturation of our own missions will be radically shorter than that of Jesus. But it happens and in the past I've certainly wanted to take wild, unplanned, possibly-not-inspired-by-God leaps of faith.
— Jon Acuff, Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job
We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.
— Samael Aun Weor
Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.
— Putu Wijaya, Gres
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love
— Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times - A Conversation with Peter Seewald
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
— Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Psychology and Meditation
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
What are you burning?" On a glance, just some papers."I write in a journal." He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren't quite for me. "Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn't just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence."I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan."What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?""Everything that I don't want to be true.
— Adele Griffin, Tighter
There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.
— Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden
Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
— Samuel Johnson
The truth will form and fall apart again.
— Sarah Slean
Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.
— Dick Peterson
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we've gotBut aren't they beautiful?
— Sarah Slean, The Baroness
Their world has changed overnight ...Even after the trial, after the verdict -- whatever it might be -- life would never be the same again.That was the truth of murder.
— Marian Babson, The Cat Next Door
Look beneath the surface
—  let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.