Quotes About Truth

There's really no just about it, is there?

This was a fact so simple that it defied logic. It bypassed logic.

Here's something else I believe: if you're going into a very dark place—like Wilf James's Nebraska farmhouse in "1922"—then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Mr. Robertson Davies has also suggested in his Deptford Trilogy that the same great truism which applies to writing, painting, picking horses at the track, and telling lies in a sincerely believable way, also applies to magic: some people got the knack, and some people don't. Hilly didn't.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage.

folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme.

George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth.

lies and love rarely went together, and never for long.

When I say truth, I mean beauty.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.

No me interesa la credibilidad, sino la libertad, y he descubierto que escribir puede proporcionarla.

Some things just have to be true, Scott said, because they have no other choice.

Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it's undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.

Maybe Shooter was a writer. He fulfilled both of the main requirements: he told a tale you wanted to hear to the end, even if you had a pretty good idea what the end was going to be, and he was so full of shit he squeaked.

the most basic rule of human discourse: when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

The truth has to come out, that's the basis of art. But that's not to say the world must see it. Be brave. Don't be afraid to draw the secret things. No one said art was always a zephyr; sometimes it's a hurricane. Even then you must not hesitate or change course. Because if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art - that you are in charge - your chance of the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

La ficción es la verdad que se encuentra dentro de la mentira y la verdad de esta ficción es muy sencilla: La magia existe.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

I also know it`s true, that thing about how perception switches around and we come to realize that the things we thought we were holding are actually holding us.

Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.

The most familiar of all advice on writing is the old classroom cliché "Write what you know." It is very much a cliché, and it is going to get rather rough treatment over the course of this book. Yet, like most clichés, it has the residual virtue of being a halftruth.

Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

When reading this book, Listen to it with your heart. Let it be a mirror of your own great nature. Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. 1

A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.