Quotes about truth and honesty
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We are subjected to the production of truth through power and we cannot exercise power except through the production of truth.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see, but few can feel.
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
A man is born in a certain country at a certain time. He's fated to live and die. And he does live and die. Meanwhile, people pay lip service to a self they can’t be bothered to discern, to a god they have no desire to understand.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
To find reality, one must forget fiction.
Life is a mask is true or not.
All thinking men are atheists.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.