Quotes About Truth

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

There is a point when a personal opinion shades off into an error of fact.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.

It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.

Now, tell me, Ray, why is it that a thing's always in the last place you look?" "The malice of inanimate objects," Irene answered.

people who had lawyers just to prove how absolutely not guilty they were. (Of anything.)

I think the time for blind trust is long over. Now I need answers.

An answer, certainly,' Vale agreed. 'But the truth? That might be a very dangerous commodity.

She'd always known that a strong capacity for self-deception and ignoring unpleasant realities had to be useful somewhere.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth.

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

they never tell you when you're younger how much you're going to ache once you get older

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth. The winners write the history books in all cultures, as it serves their advantage. Parents tell their children the stories which paint them as heroes. Enlightened self-interest is the best that anyone can hope for.

What they say about females being the weaker sex is the biggest lie in the world.

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories...

You see what you want to see

Ed. Note: Unfortunately true (also happens in back seat of cars) (#HardToLiveWith)