Quotes About Truth

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

How wrong people always were when they said: "It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way." No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

The best fiction is true.

When he'd started out, he'd expected to find his brother. What he'd never thought to find was the treasure that slept beside him now. Would you trade this to have Kieran back? It was a choice he was grateful he didn't have to make. But in the end, he knew the truth. Catarina was his life. He would sacrifice anything for her. Anyone.

The truth is often painful

They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei) I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth

Revolutions that upend established scientific truth are exceedingly rare. But when they happen, they can have profound effects on science and technology.

The five peaks of Kanchenjunga turned golden with the kind of luminous light that made you feel, if briefly, that truth was apparent. All you needed to do was to reach out and pluck it.

How many lived in the fake versions of their countries, in fake versions of other people's countries? Did their lives feel as unreal to them as his own did to him?

These people are just louts, and that's the truth

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you.

But to censor it would be tantamount to a kind of doctoring. I would be just as guilty of a normative version of the past as the charans and their ilk. And not to write at all would mean that i, too, believes that truth was a good slogan but not to be confronted in the corridors of real life.

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

But even a perfect pear can harbor a worm within.

Q&As covered my fave color (purple), my fave shows (Family Ties and Cosby), my height (5? 7?), weight (130 pounds) and eye color (hazel). They also printed false information. One said my parents were a psychologist and a newspaper reporter. Sure, my television parents held those careers—my real parents were a math/P.E. teacher and a housewife/manager (of me). I was supposed to be the coolest kid on the planet, but no one knew what a dork I was.

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

B'Elanna had lied to Tom repeatedly.

You took my body and my soul, but you wanted no part of my truth.

Where would you even look for evidence of a reality that by your own argument can't exist?

Simplest explanation usually the right one