Quotes About Truth

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

politically incorrect—another word for honest

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

But a democratic government cannot afford to be as crude as that. It never goes in for summary repression or direct control; it nullifies rather than conceals undesirable news; it controls emphasis rather than facts; it balances bad news with good; it lies directly only when it is certain that the lie will not be found out during the course of the war. This was the method

It would be pointless to deny that some crime in Australia is linked to migrant communities. A factor here is that many migrants come from countries where the government trusts none of its citizens to tell the truth and demands proof for everything. The Australian system, where the authorities generally assume that a citizen is telling the truth, but provides penalties if they are then caught lying, tempts some migrants into illegal acts...

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

He believed that Galileo was wrong when he imagined an Earth that revolved around the sun. In his heart of hearts, Peter knew that the sun that was slowly rising over his city revolved around him.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my mode of warfare? With the axe of truth I strike at the root of every tree of error and hew it down, so that there shall not be one error in man showing itself in the form of disease.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

The good have no need of an advocate.

how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie.

There is guidance for each of us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

To Marcel Duchamp's blithe "There is no solution, because there is no problem," the Japanese visual artist Shigeko Kubota replied, "There is no problem, because there is no solution.

I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world.

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.

Autumn poses the question we all have to live with: How to hold on to the things we love even though we know that we and they are dying. How to see the world as it is, yet find light within that truth.

L'homme ne s'avise de la réalité que quand il l'a représentée. Et rien, jamais, n'a pu mieux la représenter que le théâtre.

Si tu as pour moi un peu d'affection, cela me suffit / Car rien n'est plus fort que ce qui est vrai ; / Mais le soir est tombé et je suis terrifié de ne pas te voir. [95]

Ma io sono un uomo che preferisce perdere piuttosto che vincere con modi sleali e spietati. Grave colpa da parte mia, lo so! E il bello è che ho la sfacciataggine di difendere tale colpa, di considerarla quasi una virtù…

Ed era sempre chiaro che, per vivere, m'era necessario non vivere, restare ingenuo, ignaro.

If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.

TO ACT HONESTLY—EVEN AT THE RISK OF SAYING THE unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others—if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do, because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.