Quotes About Truth

While imagination certainly plays a role in both kinds of writing, the application of it in memoir is circumscribed by the facts, while in fiction it is circumscribed by what the reader will believe.

Dishonest writing is very often mediocre writing.

See? I can read between the lies of the lines of the writing on the wail.

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It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

heart she faced the wrenching truth: Impulsiveness and recklessness, her two greatest faults, had brought her to this dire end—the same two character flaws that had

The truth was that the new woman's movement made her uncomfortable. ... she was upset by the stridency of much of it. The demands. It seemed that men must surely dislike women who were so demanding.

It was like a religious conversion for me. In fact, it's kind of like sex—one of those things that everyone thinks they know all about and they tell you how great it is, but which is actually pretty uninspiring until you have it one time the way nature intended it to be.

I love the way people always think they know somebody your age until you tell them how old you really are! "I'm going on twelve," I said. "Gretchen is almost twelve too," the doctor said. Well! He was right about my age.

That's right! And I'm going to tell him exactly how I got these stains on my

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

investigation. Whatever the outcome, the reporter knew that the denouement would be a stormy one. To

In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common. Among them is the view that the existence of knowledge must be justified against the sceptic, that is, the person who thinks that we can never know anything, because he holds that we can never meet the conditions for knowledge. Knowledge is taken to be, at least in part, a matter of being in the right relation to facts or information.

the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

When people do not want to see something, they get mad at the one who shows them.

Here, In concise form, is what I have characterized as "Galileo's mistake." It is an error that has been understood by philosophers from the eighteenth century onward, from David Hume to Imman-uel Kant to Thomas Kuhn, with Increasing clarity. The mistake is In the belief that nature is Its own interpreter. It is not.

He looks out on a raging battlefield and sees error everywhere, and he thinks he can find the truth by avoiding error. —Lerone Bennett, "Tea and Sympathy: Liberals and Other White Hopes," 1964

The truest evidence that any civilization ever leaves behind about itself is its art. Art never lies.

Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).

How is it that in the Bible it is the Devil and his vessel the Antichrist that are repeatedly referred to as the schemers, liars and the deceivers; but in the Qur'an, it is Allah who is the greatest of all deceivers? Satan knows full well who he is, and as he was inspiring the Qur'an, he couldn't help but brag a little.

The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it.

Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.

Every man has the natural and inherent power to think what he wants to think, but it requires far more effort to do so than it does to think the thoughts which are suggested by appearances. To think according to appearance is easy; to think truth regardless of appearances is laborious, and requires the expenditure of more power than any other work man is called upon to perform. There