Quotes on “truth”

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for.

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.