Quotes About Truth

Fortune's truth is regret's denial.

Solipsism is the absurd conclusion.

You must be who you are - that which you tell yourself and what you've convinced others to believe.

I've lied / to you The same way that I always do This is / the last smile That I'll fake for the sake of being with you

But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

I know I'll never trust a single thing you say You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway And all the lies have got you floating up above us all But what goes up has got to fall

The truth is that trust is a gift, it's something we all can lose So hold on, it's not where it goes, it's where it can lead you to.

Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

A body of work may be reviled -- mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings -- and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

The secret is that there is no secret.

Beware of what "everybody says".

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship,it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth,which carries on being carelessly true without any help.By contrast, my lie needed as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock : Till death do us part.

In truth we are bigger, greedier versions of the same eating, shitting, rutting ruck, hell-bent on disguising from somebody, if only from a three-year-old, that pretty much all we do is eat and shit and rut. The secret is there is no secret. that is what we really wish to keep fom our kids, and it's suppression is the true collusion of adulthood...

never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.