Quotes About Truth

Nothing is certain, but if nothing is certain, how can we be certain that nothing is certain?

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

Listen to your inner voice... for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you... Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.

Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.

You can tell when something is right because most things are just plain wrong.

the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

well, you can't call yourself a hero if you're lying to someone you love.

It's a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it's inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.

At least it's real. Everything here is fake, fake, fake.' She tugs on the straps of her backpack and I'm so relieved that I'm an adult. What a nightmare it is to be a teenager, to think there's a place where everyone isn't fake, fake, fake.

but the key to life is to believe in something that matters, something big and beautiful, something more profound than fame, money.

There really is no such thing as the truth but there is such thing as happiness,

And you with your computer, as if you need to remind your imaginary audience that you're a writer when we (I) know what you truly are: a performer, an exhibitionist.

The point is, buying stuff is one of the only honest things we do. That guy didn't come in here for Dan Brown or Salinger. That guy came in here to confess." "Are you a priest?" "No. I'm a church." "Amen.

Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease.

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version of yourself to believe in, which one is true.

Yazd?klar?m? biri okuyacak olursa, belki de: "Söylediklerinin hepsi yalan," diyecek. Ama bu sefalet öylesine gerçek ki...

You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.

When you have cat stealers over for tea, you clean the house, buy bagels and cream cheese, and try to figure out how to trap your guests in a lie.

I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

I write that one sentence really tiny, like if she doesn't look hard enough she might not see it, like if I write it full size then it might be full-size true. And it's hard to imagine that full-size thing truly happening to me.

whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should

Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.