Quotes Tagged "truth"

Sometimes when you get older—and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently—things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true—why, then you get offended.

Truth on our level is a different thing from truth for the jellyfish.

There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.

I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

Life is difficult.

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

You don't deserve to understand truth if all that you want is just the normal life.

God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

مواجهة الحقيقة هي من اصعب المصاعب في هذه الدنيا أولا : لاننا ف الغالب لا نعرف ما هي الحقيقة ثانيا : لاننا ف الغالب لا نحب أن نعرفها الا مضطرين .. حين نيأس من قدرتنا علي تجاهلها ونشك ثم نشك ثم نري آخر الامر أن الشك أصعب و أقسي من مواجهة الحقيقة والصبر عليها ثالثا لاننا اذا عرفناها ففي الغالب - أيضا انها تجعلنا نغير عاده من العادات وليس أصعب علي النفس من تغيير ما اعتادت . فالموت نفسه لا صعوبة فيه لولا أنه يغير ما تعودناه وفراق الموتي لا يحزننا لولا انه تغير عاده او عادات كثيرة

Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any difference, or isn't there? What does the Way rely upon, that we have true and false? What do words rely upon, that we have right and wrong? How can the Way go away and not exist? How can words exist and not be acceptable? When the Way relies on little accomplishments and words reply on vain show, then we have rights and wrongs of the Confucians and the Mo-ists. What one calls right the other calls wrong; what one calls wrong the other calls right. But if we want to right their wrongs and wrong their rights, then the best to use is clarity.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.

Only the winner and coward may survive.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.