Truth Quotes - page 79

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. (David Levithan)
me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. View quote
David Levithan
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. View quote
David Levithan
It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. View quote
David Levithan
Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded. View quote
David Levithan
Finding that core of truth within yourself... That truth that knows and trusts that All Is Well, and that chooses Love... Is the greatest spiritual attainment you can ever make. View quote
David Wilcock
To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself. View quote
Dennis Merzel
War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced. View quote
Alva Myrdal
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. View quote
Alex Berenson
Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged. View quote
J.R. Ward
Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy. (J.R. Ward)
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. View quote
James Surowiecki
Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth. View quote
James Heckman
The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. View quote
Jeffery Deaver
We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth. View quote
Jean Rhys
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking? View quote
Gene Wilder
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. (James J. Corbett)
The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate scientific teaching. Losing that training of citizens is an extremely dangerous road to go down. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law. View quote
Joy Fielding
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. View quote
John Bradshaw