Truth Quotes

“…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.”
― Mike Norton

“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.”
― Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment

“There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?"
"I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”
― Vladimir Bartol, Alamut

“All we know is what we're told.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz.
Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada...”
― Aziz Nesin, Zübük

“I am going to die, but that is of no importance.”
― Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

“I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?”
― Richard Pryor

“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.”
― Ayn Rand, We the Living

“No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concretelimitedthing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

“Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie.”
― Patti Roberts, The Angels Are Here

“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fossilized, set in paper and ink, instead of stone. Memorialized, for better or worse. This is who I was, and this, and this, and this, and that, and most times I look back and wince. I'm rarely kind to who I was. But other times, looking back is bittersweet. Sometimes, I'm even grateful to the me of then who left a snapshot for the me of now. Maybe I should let go and join those who pretend the past is past, but it's a falsehood I've never learned to spin.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, Volume One

“Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.”
― Robin Wasserman, Crashed

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created perfect, and despite the inevitability that we loose some of that perfection when we mature and develop in the midst of others who are wounded, we always retain the capacity to become perfect once again. The soul may be buried deeply, but as long as our hearts beat there remains hope.”
― Daniel Mackler, Toward truth: A psychological guide to enlightenment

“Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.”
― Henning Mankell, Sidetracked

“And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I'm doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven...my heart is all a lump of grief.”
― Irmgard Keun

“An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.”
― William James, Pragmatism and Other Writings

“One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“The opposite of a correct statement is an incorrect statement. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth (Niels Bohr)." By this, he means that we require a larger reading of the human past, of our relations with each other, the universe and God, a retelling of our older tales to encompass many truths and to let us grow with change.”
― Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future

“Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...”
― Jayce O'Neal

“Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.”
― Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

“Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed," Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "We have a tendency to dwell on tragedy and use it as a justification for tragic occurrences that follow,rather than parse the tragedy, taking from it important lessons and using those lessons to avoid similar tragedies.”
― Megan Karasch

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Money and religion are perfect alloy.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity