Quotes about truth

The facts have to be determined by empirical evidence, and our thinking has then to conform to the facts, not the facts to our thinking

"All we can do is go around telling the truth."

You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.

Write your truth, Ms. Tia say. Your truth.

What would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits.

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

Honesty isn’t betrayal; it’s courage. Stop sugarcoating your experiences and allow the truth to free you. People often misrepresent their relationships and experiences because they’re too afraid to admit what’s true. But denial will keep you from breaking free from your past.

They’ve told so many lies in their lives that they’ve run out and can now tell only the truth.

When you’re going through a breakdown, a good question to ask is what is actually breaking down. We usually think it’s our self. But what’s typically happening is that our struggle to deny our emotional truth is breaking down. Emotional distress is a signal that it’s getting harder to remain emotionally unconscious. It means we’re about to discover our true selves underneath all that story business.

She remembered Aunty Bella Donna of the Champions once saying that no story was worth telling if no one could remember the lesson in it. These were stories that have made no difference to anyone. Old Aunty was fading away forever. But... even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered. Ah! The truth was always forgotten. (p210)

The girl convinced herself that only the mad people in the world would tell you the truth when madness was the truth, when the truth itself was mad. (p64)

“I detected some quavers in his voice that indicated stress. But I would not say that he lied.”

“Though it was not the whole truth.”

“It never is. The ‘whole truth’ starts with the beginning of the world and its telling takes an inordinately long time.”