Quotes About Truth

If you believed in something like this, it was true; if you didn't believe in it, it wasn't.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing. Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth

Everyone thinks they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.

There's no such thing as writer's block, she proclaimed. If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.

Memory is just an alternate version of reality.

When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Kaikki luulevat tietävänsä niin saamarin paljon kaikesta, mutta kukaan ei tiedä mistään mitään.

So much of being a woman is telling lies, isn't it?" Victory asked. "It's telling yourself that you want the things that society tells you you should want. Women think that survival depends on conformity. But for some women, conformity is death. It's a death to the soul. The soul," she said, "is a precious thing. When you live a lie, you damage the soul.

Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat. Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she said. Woodward froze. He said he would give her the name if she wanted. He was praying she wouldn't press it. Mrs. Graham laughed, touched his arm and said she was only kidding, she didn't really want to carry that burden around with her. Woodward took a bite of his eggs, which were cold. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

So the White House wants to eat the Washington Post, so what? It will be wearing on you, but the end is in sight. It's building and they see it and they know that they can't stop the real story from coming out. That's why they're so desperate. Just be careful, yourselves and the paper, and wait them out, don't jump too fast. Be careful and don't be too anxious.

The abiding characteristic of this administration is that it lies.

while honesty is a good thing, lying is occasionally necessary in order to protect people.

Don't you get it? It doesn't fucking matter whether he's right or not. That's the scary part.

That's no midget," the water skier said. "That's a real person.

Nobody with a living brain cell goes into the newspaper business for the money. They're in it because digging up the truth is interesting and consequential work, and for sheer entertainment it beats the hell out of humping product for GE or Microsoft.

The light extends like truth, the truth like a hand extending at the same time as it recedes. What is that like?

If I remember it, did it happen?

Sometimes, I think I dreamed it, or I am saying it like a thing that I would do, when I would never, and calling it art.

Here comes the word for mystery. Here is the word for true.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.