Truth Quotes - Page 30

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Truth is always straightforward.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Honesty is the best policy.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. But we need to remember that it is a weapon serving belief or self-interest; we need to be skeptical of skeptics. The more militant the skeptic, the stronger the belief.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.