Quotes About Truth

You can't lie to your soul.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Truth is shorter than fiction.

When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so mystifying as the obvious.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

By walking I found out Where I was going. By intensely hating, how to love. By loving, whom and what to love. By grieving, how to laugh from the belly. Out of infirmity, I have built strength. Out of untruth, truth. From hypocrisy, I wove directness. Almost now I know who I am. Almost I have the boldness to be that man. Another step And I shall be where I started from.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

How difficult it is to be simple.

On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens. [They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.