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Truthfulness Quotes (page 131)

Oscar Wilde quote: "It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving..."
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Oscar Wilde
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already... C. S. Lewis
Clarence Day quote: "As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are..."
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. Clarence Day
Jean-Luc Godard quote: "Photography is truth."
Photography is truth. Jean-Luc Godard
Jim Harrison quote: "A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true,..."
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. Jim Harrison
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. Henry David Thoreau
I very clearly recognise that the certainty and truth of all knowledge depends alone on the knowledge of the true God, in so much that, before I knew Him, I could not have a perfect knowledge of any other thing. Rene Descartes
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stigmata of LoveA light which lives on what the flames devour, a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch, a crucifixion by a single wound, a sky and earth that darken by each hour, a sob of blood whose red ribbon adornsa lyre without a pulse, and oils the torch, a tide which stuns and strands me on the reef, a scorpion scrambling, stinging in my chest--this is the wreath of love, this bed of thornsis where I dream of you stealing my rest, haunting these sunken ribs cargoed with grief. I... Federico Garcia Lorca
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living? Doug Coupland
O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem my zeal fractious or mistimed; For never can true courage dwell with them Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mariah Carey quote: "when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong..."
when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you. Mariah Carey
For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they could not escape either pride or sloth, the two sources of all vice; since they cannot but either abandon themselves to it through cowardice, or escape it by pride. Blaise Pascal
George Orwell quote: "The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it."
The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it. George Orwell
All faith is False, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown. In myriad bits; while each believeshis little bit the whole to own. Richard Francis Burton

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