Quotes About Truth

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

She'd once read that nature was a glove on the hand of God, and she knew she'd read Truth.

Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold

Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

You can't reconstruct a story—you can't even know what the story is—if everyone is saying, "Mistakes were made." Who made them? Everybody made them and no one did, and it's history anyway, so let's forget about it. Every story is a history, however, and when there is no comprehensible story, there is no history.

At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world.

The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn't annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

Lucien thought. And as for Christianity, he agreed with his father: it was a well-intentioned set of beliefs that never worked in real life.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

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Make what use of the tale you shall think proper. If it be communicated to the world, it will inculcate the duty of avoiding deceit. It will exemplify the force of early impressions, and show, the immeasurable evils that flow from an erroneous or imperfect discipline.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

There is nothing more boring than the truth.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.