Quotes About Truth

Sean Chercover

Remember—there's only one God, everything else is metaphor.

I'm humble enough to acknowledge that I don't know the secrets of the universe. I'm no longer chasing faith. I'm chasing truth—and that means accepting uncertainty, accepting that the universe is bigger and stranger than we can even know. Is it possible that the universe acts with intention, with intelligence? Science is learning that it's not only possible, it's likely.

And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is more wishful thinking than science." "What do the pessimists do?" "The pessimists just keep drinking until they pass out.

Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

basic truth which would be a major foundation stone of God's new nation, and which by 1776 would be declared self-evident: that in the eyes of their Creator, all men were of equal value.

I thought I had made a mistake, but I was mistaken.

think the mistake I made was in not admitting from the start that I loved you, not her. And I won't—" His confession came out so casually, more an explanation

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Long ago, in conversation with one of the Shonto, Hakata observed that most people preferred an ill considered answer to an intelligent question. I have come to Seh to seek truths, and in this endeavor I am prepared to ask difficult questions and then to live without immediate answers if that is what is required.

To tell only the happy stories: that isn't life. It isn't true, and you deserve better. You deserve to know.

The galaxy is painted in black and white, he realized, feeling the truth and certainty of it deep in every bone. But from far enough away, it all looks gray.

All politicians are liars', he said, 'to quote Chancellor Janarus - Jet Nebula

And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happiness, or at least that daily contentment that I was once I do believe mistress of

The mind is a wild liar and I don't trust much in it that I find there.

I knew, I knew any proper, decent life was over. The word of a man like that was like a death sentence . . . I had known it all along, but it is a very different matter to know your sentence, and then to hear it spoken by your judge . . . Truest of all things, there was no one to help me, no one to stand at my side.

For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth.

The real comfort is that the history of the world contains so much grief that my small griefs are edged out, and are only cinders at the borders of the fire. I am saying this again because I want it to be true.

I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.

For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.

In there, she said, humanity was a book without a cover.

The truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.

The world ain't worth nothing unless you true in it.