Quotes About Truth

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

Blinded following the Blindfolded

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

You can't believe everything you read.

I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear it was.

We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.

No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos

Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase "greatest myths" is just a fancy way of saying "big fat lies"–is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.

But there are things that are difficult to see not because of the size of their surroundings, or a clever disguise, or a treacherous person with a book of matches in his pocket and a fiendish plot in his brain, but because the things are so upsetting to look at, so distressing to believe, that it is as if your eyes refuse to see what is right in front of them.