Quotes and sayings about tag  truth

421 Quotes

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

Matt D. Miller

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Neal A. Maxwell

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

P.D. Ouspensky

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Deb Caletti

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Deepak Chopra

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.

Delia Ephron

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Diane Setterfield

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Doris Lessing

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Dorothy Allison

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

Dorothy Day

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