Quotes About Distortion

Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Images split the truth in fractions.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.

Nationalism is a distorting mirror in which believers see their simple ethnic, religious, or territorial attributes transformed into glorious attributes and qualities.