Quotes About Truth

Words are important he realized, especially in a nation ruled by its media.

They may not know it," DiNardo said, his smile becoming genuine, "but even the most stubborn atheist among them is working to uncover God's ways.

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants. That is insanity. Wrong, it's being human.

My my, the cruelest lies are often told without a word My my, the kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

the bleakness of life takes many forms, and that none of those forms should be permitted to obscure the central mission, which is to record it honestly, powerfully, and continuously.

There's something in everyone only they know.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Truth is the trial of itselfAnd needs no other touch,And purer than the purest gold,Refine it ne'er so much.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth...may be another profound truth." It either is or is not August...if I assert it's August when it isn't--simply false; but if I say that life is pain, that is true, profoundly so; so, too, that life is joy; the more profound the statement, the more reversible the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed... [Niels Bohr]

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

But there are no grown-ups, that's what you must grow up to know fully; your parents were just two more bodies experiencing landscape and weather, trying to make sense by vibrating columns of air, redescribing contingency as necessity with religion or World Ice Theory or the Jewish science, cutting profound truths with their opposites as the regimes of meaning collapse into the spread.

Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

The power of it was all finally there, finally real for me.

one I had— The feeling of a fiction collapsing inside you. A fiction you'd forgotten was there.

Because you believe, even though you'll deny it, that writing has some kind of magical power. And you're probably crazy enough to make your fiction come true somehow.

The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

I'd become the unreliable narrator of my first novel.

The opposite of a truth," Klaus quoted, "is a falsehood; but the opposite of a profound truth"—pause for emphasis, sound of sprinklers, insects, push mowers, felt absence of city noise, Kenny Rogers from a passing car—"may be another profound truth.