Quotes About Truth

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened

everyone was a monster and everyone wore a mask to hide the fact.

if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.

In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you're the one who denies it, doesn't that make you the one most likely wrong?

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality.

Necessity is the ethnicity of truth.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

Truth may have been found but might never be known.

The relationship between teacher and student is based on illusion. The teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

Everyone has secrets. And everyone has the right to keep them. Even if they're dead.

Aku tahu di dunia ini kadang kita harus menerima fakta yang tidak ingin kita percayai

Murder is murder. Everything else is just details

teacher is under the illusion that he is teaching something, and the student is under the illusion that he is being taught. What's important is that this shared illusion makes both teacher and student happy. Nothing good is gained by facing the truth, after all. All we're doing is playing at education.

Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you'll fail to see what's right under your nose.

If there's something you're not going to be able to do, you should just be honest and admit it.

Hubungan antara guru dan murid dibangun berdasarkan persepsi yang salah, yaitu tugas sang guru adalah mengajarkan sesuatu sementara tugas murid adalah mempelajarinya. Yang penting adalah bagaimana persepsi itu bisa membuat kedua belah pihak sama-sama puas, apalagi yang namanya kebenaran tidak menjamin semuanya akan baik-baik saja. Yang kita kerjakan saat ini sama dengan bermain sekolah-sekolahan. Nonoguchi

If we know the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of,

Keigo Higashino