Quotes About Truth

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

My father is a liar and so am I. But I'm going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That's my promise. This time I truly mean it.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

It would be impossible to be fact-checking Donald Trump all the time.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.