Quotes
Quotes about Truth
Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is oneâone for all men and for all occupations.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. -Unknown love quote.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.
Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. [Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere.]
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]
Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
