Quotes on “truth”

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.