Quotes About Truth

I think so much of real life is this avoidance of getting into the not knowing. So much of my life, I've been running from just admitting that I don't know.

I'm not perfect and no one else is perfect.

I'm not perfect. No one is.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

Truth is an illusory notion.

For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Novelists lie for a living - what is a novel, after all, but an assembly of fibs paradoxically meant to illustrate something true? - but generally see a distinction between lying on the page and lying off it.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

Neuroscientists are novices at deception.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.