Quotes About Truth

We also believe thoughts like "I'm hungry" or "I need pie" even when they aren't true. We react to these inaccurate statements as though they were scientific fact. As

I remember every word ever said to me. That was a lie. Who would want that? Most of it I delete from permanent memory.

God loves you. Yes, you made a mistake a long time ago. That's true . . . But somebody else took the truth and twisted it into shame. Your parents, your teachers, your friends. They made you believe their lies. You accepted their shame instead of God's love.

God loves you. He wants you to be His child, not His avenger. You find the facts, but let Him reveal the truth. Because He's the only one who knows it. All of it.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw being asked and answered everywhere you looked, in every headline and haircut: if, at any moment, nothing might matter, then who said that nothing didn't matter already?

How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.

The fact was that facts were losing their value. Stalin had broken the opposition. He was also far advanced toward his much stranger objective of breaking the truth. Or it may have been the other way about: actuality, under Stalin, was such that dread and disgust forbade you to accept it— or even to contemplate it.

To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever.

Senza mai guardare dove sta andando, la gente si muove attraverso qualcosa di predisposto, armata di bugie. Non vede l'ora di raggiungere luoghi dai quali è appena tornata, o si rammarica di aver fatto cose che non ha ancora fatto. Signori delle bugie e della spazzatura - di ogni sorta di merda e di spazzatura. [...] Lo prendiamo ancora in culo ogni mattina come tutti gli altri - ma in questi giorni la cosa finisce in un baleno.

Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

When we wake up in the morning (he thought), it's the first task that lies ahead of us: the separation of the true from the false. We have to dismiss, to erase the mocking kingdoms made by sleep. But at the close of day it was the other way round, and we sought the untrue and the fictitious, sometimes snapping ourselves awake in our hunger for nonsensical connections.

The sun was looking down on this, but not quite sincerely.

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

he never knows what he's saying. He says everything, so he has to be right some of the time.

Tolstoy wrote, 'God knows the truth, but waits.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, thats what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.

But maybe 'the brutality of fact' isn't a phrase that precisely suits what he does. Perhaps, 'the awkwardness of truth' would be nearer the mark. …

To understand Michelangelo and his art, it is necessary to accept both these truths. He believed that the sight of beautiful individuals was a path to the divine beauty and goodness of God. Simultaneously, it was a source of hopeless erotic yearning.

I am only interested in art that is in some way concerned with truth. I could not care less whether it is abstract or what form it takes.' …

When Hogg asked Churchill directly: 'Is there a shadow of truth in any of the accusations made against you,' Churchill replied: 'Not the slightest. From beginning to end it is a monstrous and malicious invention.' Douglas

The Government's repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information. 'No doubt it is not popular to say these things,' Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, 'but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.' During