truth on Illusion

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

Paradox has been defined as “Truth standing on her head to attract attention."

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

Recently, when I was in London, I went to the National Gallery. It was a weekday, but it was still crowded with people wearing headsets, staring at famous paintings, listening to a narrator explain th...

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

There’s a somewhat naïve belief among some that, in general, most people are inherently good. While many Christians may not fully embrace John Calvin’s doctrine of total depravity (which I believe is ...

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

Author and Episcopal priest Stephanie Spellers suggests that instead of imagining a kingdom, a better way for us to understand what Jesus had in mind when he spoke of this script, this new way of livi...

One day when George MacDonald, the great Scottish preacher and writer, was talking with his son, the conversation turned to heaven and the prophets’ version of the end of all things. “It seems too goo...

“I know” seems to describe a state of affairs which guarantees what is known, guarantees it as a fact. One always forgets the expression, “I thought I knew.”

When in doubt, tell the truth.