Quotes About Truth

Truth and logic could serve as springboards for psychosis.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

Schellenberg had the habit of calling people he didn't like whores, and this term suited him well - and when I think about it, it's true that the insults people prefer, the ones that come most spontaneously to their lips, often in the end reveal their own hidden faults, since they naturally hate what they most resemble.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one's self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

The world is bigger and harder to understand than you think... You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

There is music in the noise, beauty in the chaos, truth in the lies, light in the void. He who has eyes, let him see.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

There is no such thing as an alternative fact," said Rudy. "The truth is only ever the truth. What changes is whether we accept it, even if it is inconvenient and contrary to the truth we'd prefer.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. —Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

Distance is a liar. Perspective, on the other hand, is a brutally honest motherfucker. - Joe Ledger, "Hot Time in the Old Town

There are worse things that can happen to an enemy of the state than Gitmo. Hate to say it, hate it to be the truth, but there it is.

They're politicians, and politics is about leverage, not about the truth.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth.

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine

When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?" the woman asked aloud. "Keeping you hushed might keep me out of jail, but sure as the world, calming ain't curing.

A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom.

You're like a lot of others, thinking everything come from the white man. Long as you believe that, you'll be blind to your own lights. You got to break the lie.

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

the plural of "anecdote" is "data.

people don't always understand their own true desires and feelings, and, even if they do, they might not give a straight answer.

In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.