Quotes About Truth

Se si parla di politica, di Dio o dell'amore, la gente mente e lo fa pure in modo noioso.Tutto ciò che ti serve sapere di una persona lo capisci dalla sua risposta alla domanda: "Qual è il tuo libro preferito?

I know that Marian Wallace was your girlfriend." "That isn't true." "Don't lie! I know that she came here to kill herself in your front yard. I know that she left Maya for you, but you either were too lazy or too much of a coward to claim her.

lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

The historian amputates reality.

Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

This was a hard-won but brilliant education: I had realized, as life is always willing to instruct, that the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what holds up the rest. The realized life versus the external picture of it: the assumption and projections that we all make about other people's lives.

the world as we see it is only the published version. The subterranean realms, whether churches or hospital rooms or smoke-filled basements, are part of what hold up the rest.

SCRATCH A FANTASY and you'll find a nightmare." This was one of Caroline's favorite sayings, spoken originally in regard to a mutual friend, a woman who had chased a dream life abroad and wound up trapped and unhappy. Then the saying became code for all those seemingly perfect lives being lived someplace else, with better jobs or partners or inner states.

Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.

But the point is not to spin the narrative; that defeats the purpose, in some way, of story itself. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.

We can't run away from what defines our fates. Who we are and what we believe in grow from the roots of our past, no matter how much we might try to deny it.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

But it does move!

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Eppur si muove.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.