Truth Quotes

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

The truth is lived, not taught.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.