Quotes About Truth

Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them.

Then there is the human factor. As a variation on the old maxim has it, "Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit.

Big waves are not measured in feet, but in increments of bullshit." When

I'll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they've stopped caring.

Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...

the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.

do you know why the French are so honest? because there are so few words in their language they're forced to be.

Sincerity becomes the honesty of people who cannot be honest with themselves.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest.

Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.

With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.

every work of art is a work of perfect necessity.

What do you think we ought to do? she asked. Do? Put his sorry ass away. Tell the law and let them open the graves themselves. Put him away forever in some crazyhouse. They'd have to. You think they would? I know they would. What would you do with him? There's supposed to be respect for the dead. It's the way we evolved or something. It's genetic. This man here…he wouldn't cull anything. He'd do anything.

You get a picture of things in your head and your picture is all you see. You don't know me. You don't even know yourself. All you know is your little picture of how things ought to be, and that's the way you think they are.

Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon? What? Half-imaginary.

The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America's real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The

Something stilled the part of him that knitted narrative, that grew the underbrush of lies in which he lived.

Some man in China say th' truth comes out this', he said unwrapping an ancient, oil-slick Remington automatic shotgun, its barrel chopped off a few millimetres in front of the battered forestock.

People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

Andrea maintained that men like Alain lied so constantly, so passionately, that some basic distinction had been lost. They were artists in their own right, Andrea said, intent on restructuring reality

Which had a top layer of truth to it, but latticed, like the caramel on the cronuts.