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Quotes About Truth

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
~ Saul Bellow
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
~ F.H. Bradley
If you want to know what your true beliefs are- take a look at your actions.
~ Robert Anthony
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
~ Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
~ John Hines
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
~ Jeremy Taylor
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
~ Rashida Jones
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
~ Mark Strand
One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
~ Tana French, In the Woods
You are always a little bit wrong
~ Hank Green
People ask without wanting to know.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
~ Neil Gaiman
Truth is beauty
~ Lisi Harrison
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
~ Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
~ Anne Frasier, Hush
There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.
~ Vikas Swarup
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger