Quotes About Truth

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

All successful marriages are based on some necessary hypocrisies. It's only the unsuccessful ones where people always tell the truth to each other. The

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

A essência do engano não é a mentira que se diz, mas as verdades que se contam para a apoiar.

The poor were downtrodden. The press told lies. Truth existed nowhere. Everyone was motivated by money.

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

It becomes still more difficult to find Words at once true and kind, Or not untrue and not unkind.

Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

At this unique distance from isolation it becomes still more difficult to find words at once true and kind, or not untrue and not unkind.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

I, too, have to end up worshipping at the altar where God's name is truth.

That may sound contradictory, but I don't think that we can do without an idea of truth, even if we know that we are generating hypotheses and interpretations. The idea is to inspire the quest, not insist upon an answer or promise an assured outcome. It's a utopian project. The subject is not that important. It's just a pathway into the problems.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

They're only stories," he would say, "What do stories matter?" But he wasn't stupid. He knew as well as Myrddin that in the end stories are all that matter.

Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth.

Everything was ruined! Pennyroyal didn't just know what she'd done, he'd written a book about it! There were paintings! Even if Pennyroyal had twisted the facts, the truth was still there, in black and white on the pages of his book. Hester Shaw had sold Anchorage to the Huntsmen. And when Tom found out …