Quotes About Truth

The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?

Je ne peux rien affirmer de moi-même qui soit authentiquement moi-même.

Así resulta que la irrealidad tiene poder sobre la realidad.

Écrire, me dit-elle tristement, c'est dur. Ce doit être ce qu'il y a de plus exigeant au monde... pour que ce soit vrai, tu comprends!

Non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

We can't be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie.

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

Let thy good spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance, and without the sound of words speak all truth.

E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .)

Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness of an asp and do not want to look at either the planets, the moon or the telescope, even though I have freely and deliberately offered them the opportunity a thousand times? Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth.

All truths are easy to understand once you find them, the point is to discover them

Dites-nous comment on va au ciel, et laissez-nous vous dire comment va le ciel.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove)

If anything was, that the world will always--it can only--disappoint.

It was funny how you thought you remembered someone. You sketched their face boldly in your mind, but when you saw them again, you realized how far you were from their true likeness. Had he always been that height, for example? Had he moved the way he did, long strides as he reached the table? Had he smiled at her like that? Maybe she'd constructed false memories of him, fake angles.

Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture.

This is not a filmy line, but truth always wins.

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.