Being Truthful Quotes (page 5)

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• alone
• comforting
• cold

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore. Roberto Bolano

• thinking
• little
• understanding

Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it. Terry Goodkind

• knowledge
• resist
• truthfulness

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge. Walter Benjamin

• worship
• worshipped
• expenses

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. Johann Georg Zimmermann

• manly
• path
• question

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• look
• men
• car

Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the curiosity thing. I guess it's another one of those car crash experiences, where you feel compelled to look even if you know you'll be horrified. Janet Evanovich

• humanity
• mind
• mindfulness

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• political
• domesticated
• practice

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. Samuel Butler

• great
• greatness
• purpose

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. Leonardo da Vinci

• god
• truthful
• truthfulness

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth, Barack Obama

• use
• using
• truthful

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. H. L. Mencken

• lies
• credibility
• being lied to

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie! Sidney Howard

• lies
• must
• spoken

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken. Mason Cooley

• life
• truths
• escaping

Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• liars
• hand
• saying

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. Alan Moore