Quotes about truth
truth may gains
One may gain one truth at the expense of another. Anais Nin
truth hypocrisy deception
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
truth use telling-the-truth
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
truth dynamite handle
One handles truths like dynamite.
truth reality political
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
truth reality two
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile. Anne Hathaway
truth secret exposed
Once exposed, a secret loses all its power. Ann Aguirre
truth-is you-choose
The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place. Chuck Palahniuk
truth shining looks
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
truth facts prejudice
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. Christopher Morley
truth men people
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
truth safety hours
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
truth school charity
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. Amos Bronson Alcott
truth jealous sensitive
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.
truth veils shields
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.
truth light land
You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own. Anthony de Mello
truth promise faces
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. Anne Sexton
truth doe blame
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Anita Brookner
truth stories narrative
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. Ambrose Bierce
truth appearance compounds
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
truth way tempest
REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
truth sea departed
PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.
truth stress splendor
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
truth liars
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
truth common-sense utterance
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
truth deceptive presumption
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
truth-is can-not falsehood
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
truth healing emotional
Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing. Alice Miller
truth parent essentials
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
truth moral revolutionary
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive. Anne Lamott
truth pain suffering
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Aeschylus
truth lying lips
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
truth lying men
Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.