Truth Quote by Sara Shepard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”

“We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people”

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.”

“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.”