Quotes About Truth

Nykyrian glanced up from his dinner preparations. Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. Syn snorted. I don't lie. I merely tell the truth creatively. -Nykyrian & Syn

Our memories are always faulty. They're tainted by our emotions and perceptions. We filter everything we take in by our experiences. I mean, you said yourself a few minutes ago. Did I say what you thought I did or did you hear what you wanted me to say? It doesn't make me a liar or you a fool. It's just human nature. People see what they want to see and they hear what they need or want to hear.

New studies show that 100% of all smokers die.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.

Reality trumps rationality.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst. The worst. The absolute worse. They have an agenda that you wouldn't believe.

Life ain't the movies.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

I get it I live it to me there's nothin realer

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.