Quotes About Truth

No one. I'm a pawn in this game. You're always first to say how unimportant I am. But at least I will be the pawn who tells the truth.

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet

I remembered all my tall tales to strangers on buses. I was explaining in my own way; making things up so there would be no discussion of what I was really.

TELL ALL THE TRUTH but tell it slant, says my friend Emily Dickinson.

But people desire fair government. You say that constantly." "They want to believe in heroes, also. And villains. Especially when very frightened. It's less taxing than the truth.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

People had to manage terrible truths.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

The truth is, it didn't matter what or how hard we yelled. Nothing was coming back to us.

some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.

If no one has said outright that spying on Mr. Axelroot is a sin, then God probably couldn't technically hold it against me.

The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.

Until that moment I'd always beloved i could still go home and pretend the Congo never happened

Truth is objective. A man should be respected for telling it, not threatened.

It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light. A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass.

So if it's not this exact prophet of self-indulgence we're looking to for reassurance, it will be some other liar who's good at distracting us from the truth.

Scientific laws are not the property of a man. They exist outside of us.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

LISTEN, don't believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you get to marry the prince, you still wake up in the morning with your mouth tasting like drain cleaner and your hair all flat on one side.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

To the best of my abilities, I made it sad and true to the laughable mess of addicted youth. Also bitter. In one of my strips, Crash is filling his pill-mill scrip and the pharmacy lady leans over to warn him, "This one's strong, hon. The Purdue rep takes it so he can sleep nights.