Quotes About Truth

Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio

Old men and far travellers may lie with authority.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

You can't run away from yourself

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Marriage is what marriage is... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.