Quotes About Truth

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically ' they really mean, 'not really.'

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

cuanto más pronto usted comprenda que nadie se hace rico rápidamente usando información secreta, tanto mejor.

One of my pastors says that living right is not complicated; it may be difficult, but it is not complicated.

it. I found my answer in the

So yes, saying "I don't know" is a good thing. Bullshitting your way through life is not dignified and over time it can never really work. Eventually people see through it and then are very likely to second-guess everything else you say going forward.

None of this is real.

You probably don't want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you're a politician).

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

it is worth looking closer and remembering something Marcos Alvito told me: Statistics are like a bikini. They show so much, but they hide the most important parts.

Fictional tales are better and more enjoyable the nearer they approach the truth or the semblance of the truth

U nekom trenutku sve pri?e postaju iste, kaže pripoveda?, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripoveda?, da se onaj koj sluša ili ?ita pri?u navede na pomisao da je pri?a koju upravo sluša ili ?ita ipak druga?ija od ostalih. Pripovedanje je, dakle, zavaravanje, kaže pripoveda?, pri?a je, zna?i, laž. (Pripovedanje i pri?a)

Pri?am sve ovo samo zato što verujem da se jednostavne stvari (smrt) mogu poništiti složenim strukturama (pripovedanje), iako je odavno trebalo da je jednostavnost zamršenija od svake složenosti.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

What is is?' 'I don't know. I don't even know if it's true or if it's a dream.' 'That's alright. Truth and Dreams are always getting muddled.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place.

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine.

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

Excuse me, sir, I ain't no politician! I prefer to be honest and work for my livin'!

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine. All

She pointed through the windshield at the intersection with First Street. "That is the intersection with First Street NE. I can pretend it's the intersection with Fifth Street as long as I like, but it won't change the fact. It is what it is.

Natural history is not about producing fables.