Quotes About Truth

Ronald Coase cynically observed that, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. John Keats

We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.

De waarheid is een gecorrigeerde vergissing.

Avouer qu'on s'était trompé, c'est rendre le plus éclatant hommage à la perspicacité de son esprit.

The man, still kneeling, must have understood the cause of my tears, for he said, 'It is true, Christine! ... I am not an Angel, nor a genius, nor a ghost ... I am Erik!

My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them

The truth is that no one ever knew how Joseph Buquet met his death. The verdict at the inquest was natural suicide. In

There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities.

A false hope gives only false comfort.

Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth? Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth. What better truth can there be than truth?

There is only one truth. Truth is absolute. You can't escape it, no matter how far you run.

So, you'd rather just regurgitate what these books tell you than know what really happened? Exactly. No quest for truth? Where's your spirit of exploration? You never went to college, did you?

Unlike so many "reporters" today, they knew the difference between objective reporting of news and hyping things up to entertain the audience—and bump up their ratings.)

Time turns our lies into truths.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. [...] We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Time turns our lies into truth

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.

For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.

Even a man who courts a maid thinking he has no rivals has one, and that one is herself. She may give herself to him, but she may also choose to keep herself for herself. He has to convince her that she will be happier with him than by herself, and though men convince maids of that often, it isn't often true.

In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Every woman is her true age when she sleeps.

He was a bad man, a bully and a thug, yet he was deeply religious in his way—I very much doubt that he would have made such a thing up. It was not his sort of lie, if you know what I mean.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.' Hildegrin