Quotes About Truth

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I go online and read the comments about me. I'm always nervous that they're going to say something mean. But a lot of people say nice things, too. It's important to keep yourself in balance. When someone writes something about me that's not true, I just try to look at it like it's funny.

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

And I think I've found the real benefit of digital memory. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong.

Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

Right now each of us is a private oral culture. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves.

Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

On the one side are the truths of fact, on the other the truth of the writer's feeling, and where the two coincide cannot be decided by any outside authority in advance.

Our language has two words for what in your language is called 'true.' There is what's right, mimi, and what's precise, vough. In a dispute the principals say what they consider right; they speak mimi. The witnesses, however, are sworn to say precisely what happened; they speak vough. When Sabe has heard what happened he can decide what action is mimi for everyone. But it's not lying if the principals don't speak vough, as long as they speak mimi.

some of the core assumptions on which your self-image is built are actually lies.

Aquéllos que han leído el Libro del tiempo nunca lo admiten

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

That's right. Arithmetic as a formal system is inconsistent.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response. I had always assumed those were one and the same, but what if they aren't? I don't know what to think now. It frightens me to imagine that you have never been listening at all.

Albert Einstein once said, "Insofar as the propositions of mathematics give an account of reality they are not certain; and insofar as they are certain they do not describe reality.

It seemed to me that a perfect memory couldn't be a narrative any more than unedited security-cam footage could be a feature film.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response.

Because all of us have been wrong on various occasions, engaged in cruelty and hypocrisy, and we've forgotten most of those occasions. And that means we don't really know ourselves.

The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.

As a journalist, I have long appreciated the usefulness of lifelogging for determining the facts of the matter. There is scarcely a legal proceeding, criminal or civil, that doesn't make use of someone's lifelog, and rightly so. When the public interest is involved, finding out what actually happened is important; justice is an essential part of the social contract, and you can't have justice until you know the truth.

For the heptapods, all language was performative. Instead of using language to inform, they used language to actualize. Sure, heptapods already knew what would be said in any conversation; but in order for their knowledge to be true, the conversation would have to take place.

Por un lado está la verdad de los hechos; por el otro, la verdad del sentimiento del autor, y donde coinciden las dos ninguna autoridad externa puede prestarse a decidirlo.

Porque todos nos hemos equivocado en diversas ocasiones, hemos actuado con crueldad e hipocresía, y todos hemos olvidado la mayoría de esas ocasiones. Y eso significa que en realidad no nos conocemos