Truth Quotes - Page 15

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.

My mother was Dauntless.

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.