Quotes of: Truths Keyword

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.

Decoded

You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.

Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have risen to such a revelation of truth?

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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.

Discourse on Method

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Drown

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Disgrace

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

The Daughter of Time

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

Doctor Zhivago

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.

Essays On Art, 1915 1933

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

East of Eden

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

Education of a Wandering Man

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

If you loved someone, you couldn’t let lies come between you. No matter what happened—even if you’d already lost each other forever—you owed each other the truth.

Evernight