Quotes About Truth

The historian deals with the past, but the true storyteller works with the future. You can tell the strength of an age by the imaginative truth-grasping vigour of its storytellers. Stories are matrices of thought. They are patterns formed in the mind. They weave their effect on the future. To be a storyteller is to work with, to weave with, the material of time itself.

You take every day for granted. That for you is real. But if you stop taking it for granted it becomes unreal. Unreality makes the work real. If you remember how unreal the world is, you will be fine

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Because you rejected my love, this is my curse on you. Refusing to love an illusion, you will have to love without illusion.

I believe that story changes reality.

If You Look Too Deeply Everything Breaks Your Heart.

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.

but there's more to it than has been portrayed.

I told her truthfully that it had been more my fault than hers.

In truth, she had far more experience in Fed policymaking than I had had on taking office.

He wasn't sure of his age himself; his parents manipulated their records to keep him out of military service.

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor,

That's the problem with educating girls' said Spode, bitterly, 'they never stop resorting to fact.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

There is no such thing as 'your truth'. There is the truth and your opinion.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

Okay, forget about the disrespect, facts don't care about your feelings. It, turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner's body, is male, with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … It turns out that he still has all of his male appendages. How he feels on the inside is irrelevant to the question of his biological self.

The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.

In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.

After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

To Aristotle, "good" wasn't a subjective term, something for each of us to define for ourselves; "good" was a statement of objective fact. Something was "good" if it fulfilled its purpose. A good watch tells time; a good dog defends its master. What does a good human being do? Acts in accordance with right reason.

When facts become secondary to emotion, truth dies. And a society that doesn't value truth cannot survive.

Finally, we must believe that we are pursuing true goals—not merely effective ones. Darwinian evolution leaves no room for the true; it only leaves room for the evolutionarily beneficial.

But you don't have to hate it. In fact, it can be an absolute blast. The moment you don't give a damn what they say about you because you realize they're lying is the moment you have the upper hand.