Quotes About Truth

I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love. She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

You could drink the truth in its purity if you went to the source

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

We make sense of the world, some philosopher once said, only through its rearrangement, through a constant shift in perspective coupled with a slight movement of this or that here and there and then here again. In that manner, in the imperfections such movements reveal, the truth becomes apparent.

If ANYTHING is assumed to be other than bullshit, then there is something wrong with the perspective.

the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

Reality' is the idea that there is a real world that exists whether or not anyone is looking at it, or measuring it.

There is no absolute truth at the quantum level

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.