Quotes About Truth

It is time for the destruction of error.

And how reliable can any truth be that is got By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?

Though language may be useless, for No words men write can stop the war Or measure up to the relief Of its immeasurable grief, Yet truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense, And often when the searcher stood Before the Oracle, it would Ignore his grown-up earnestness But not the child of his distress

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient: I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive, which is why, perhaps, all totalitarian theories of the State, from Plato's downwards, have deeply mistrusted the arts. They notice and say too much, and the neighbors start talking.

If I were asked to name people whom I considered true Christians, the name 'George Orwell' is one of the first that would come to my mind.

And the truth cannot be hid; Somebody chose their pain, What needn't have happened did.

But ideas can be true although men die, And we can watch a thousand faces Made active by one lie: And maps can really point to places Where life is evil now: Nanking; Dachau.

A critter reveals his true self at midnight.

Everything that does not need you is real

The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.

what I live for I can seldom believe in

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.