Truthfulness Quotes (page 146)

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• best friend
• people
• friendship

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth, well known to all intelligent people. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• truths
• truthful
• dementia

Dementia was like a truth serum. Amy Tan

• lies
• ignorance
• humble

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Khalil Gibran

• god
• world
• manly

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic. Cormac McCarthy

• lies
• thinking
• people

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'. William Golding

• lonely
• ghost
• uttered

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. George Orwell

• worship
• worshipped
• expenses

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

• road
• view
• little

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. Charles Darwin

• personal
• personality
• dating

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Margaret Atwood

• mood
• women
• music is life

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life? when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings? when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors? when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than... Wilhelm Reich

• humanity
• justice
• against

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. Malcolm X

• liars
• great
• greatness

Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives. Dorothy Allison

• mind
• science
• mindfulness

If an Elder shall give us a lecture upon astronomy, chemistry, or geology, our religion embraces it all. It matters not what the subject be, if it tends to improve the mind, exalt the feelings, and enlarge the capacity. The truth that is in all the arts and sciences forms part of our religion. Faith is no more a part of it than any other true principle of philosophy. Brigham Young

• single
• wife
• universe

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen

• confused
• confusions
• truths

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. Jean-Paul Sartre