Quotes About Truth

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid." —Jules Feiffer

Anything processed by memory is fiction.

Candor is key—being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.

Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.

What the lyric essay inherits from the public essay is a fact-hungry pursuit of solutions to problems

Every page is a bent version of reality—too unsophisticated to be art but too self-conscious to be mere reportage.

The board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who

Als Kain seinen Bruder Abel um die Ecke brachte, glauben Sie bloß nicht, dass der Alte da oben ein paar uniformierte Grünschnäbel zu den Ermittlungen schickte. Verdammt, nein, er holte einen Detective.

It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

Es verdad que hay muertos que están vivos? Eso es bien sabido. Bailan, cantan, hacen el amor. ¿Y se matan unos a otros? Eso nunca.

Los refranes son siempre ambivalentes, a una sentencia le corresponde su opuesta, en eso consiste la sabiduría popular, en no equivocarse nunca y lo mismo a quien madruga Dios le ayuda que no por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano.

Todos en algún instante de nuestra vida necesitamos regresar a la caverna.

No está permitido dudar. No está permitido decir la verdad. No está permitido rectificar

Si estudias a fondo la civilización, comienzas a deconstruirla, me explicó. Si le quitas las pátinas falsas, descubres el óxido. Si conoces al ser humano, dejas de amar al ser humano de manera ciega y complaciente.

No me creo a los que fingen interesarse por ellos. Aquí cada uno va a la suya. Lo más decente es decir la verdad.

A todos nos gusta adornar el repaso de la vida propia de aquello que fue luminoso, para morir entre luces y no en la oscuridad del desengaño.

Es fácil engañar a las madres cuando ellas quieren ser engañadas.

It's much more comfortable to cling to your bigotry than it is to admit you've been wrong to feel it in the first place

So bring on your inquiry. Present your case, and we'll present ours. Not because we give one single solitary damn for your prepackaged, predetermined 'impartial conclusions,' but because we care about history. Because unlike you, we do care about truth. And because someday your successors, whoever they may be, will have a record of what you actually do here and will revile your memory with all the contempt and all the disdain your actions will so richly merit.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

The other side's version," Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he's not willing to call it "the truth." Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!

There's not much point in making logical arguments to someone who's already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so