Quotes about truth

As long as he did not know the truth, he could interpret the story in the only way that gave him hope: the coming of black rule would not mean, could never mean the end of white power.

Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

The Buddha said, "Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. If you cling to it so much, when the truth comes in person and knocks at your door, you will not open it." Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth. The technique is to release. The Buddhist way of understanding is always letting go of our views and knowledge in order to transcend. This is the most important teaching.

He felt very tired, not from the mental effort, but because he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and truths,

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Would you that spangle of Existence spend

About the Secret — Quick about it, Friend!

A Hair perhaps divides the False and True —

And upon what, prithee, may life depend?

“By God, you are a hateful man!”

“Anyone who tells you anything you don’t want to hear is a hateful man,” Hamnet answered.