Quotes about Truth
And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.
— Cormac McCarthy
Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.
— Cormac McCarthy
Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.
— Cormac McCarthy
I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.
— Cormac McCarthy
The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.
— Cormac McCarthy
Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
— Craig Keener
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
— DH Lawrence
Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...
— DH Lawrence
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha
— DH Lawrence
Art-speech is the only truth.
— DH Lawrence
We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood.
— DH Lawrence