Quotes About Truth

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense.

Phoenix was square and straight, boxy and boxed in, and above all, fake.

No one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Real journalists pride themselves on getting it first and right; they get to the bottom of the story

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde

So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually had labels on them saying MADE IN JAPAN.

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.

Perhaps it's inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,' he said to himself: 'it would mean that we were duped by nature.

I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

That's what I must avoid: I mustn't put strangeness where there's nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the look-out, and you continually stretch the truth.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.

Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing. This

No, my child, these things are impossible. It would have been better if she had recognize the truth courageously. She would have suffered once, then time would have erased with its sponge. There is nothing like looking things in the face, believe me.