The Truth Quotes
Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.
I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so.
Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!
Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth