Quotes About Truth

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.

The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.

But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.

In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart....

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges." He

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.

Cooper pulled out a high-backed stool, sat down, tapped out the beat on the bar with his fingertips. He'd heard once that the essence of country music was three chords and the truth. Well, the three-chords part still stands.

everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

Maybe the problem is that no one is telling the truth about it. Maybe if there were more facts and fewer agendas, none of this would be happening.

It's like the parable about a man who dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he couldn't be sure that he wasn't a butterfly dreaming he was a man. And

Reminded you that everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.

The truth was, everything in life came down to intentions and results. Cooper's intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn't matter. Maybe the only thing that counted was results.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

Anything that might occur in 'story-time' could ultimately not be stranger than the utter oddity of the 'real-world.

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

There never was a story that was happy through and through

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.