Quotes About Truth

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

Angst is the intellectual observation that fairy tales aren't true—that there is an unhappy end to every happy beginning. Angst

Since comedy encourages the audience to suspend disbelief, humorists can take advantage of every opportunity to stretch the truth. In other circumstances, unmitigated exaggeration would be viewed as lying. In humor, clever exaggeration is rewarded with laughter.

Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force.

Fearlessness is indispensable for the growth of the other noble qualities. How can one seek Truth, or cherish Love, without fearlessness?

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

But the truth is, we have done more damage to the world's impression of Jesus by feigning inaccurate perfection than we could ever cause by allowing those who don't follow Christ to see us wrestling our sins and flaws to the ground.

But the truth is, we have done more damage to the world's impression of Jesus by feigning inaccurate perfection than we could ever cause

discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

The world doesn't work like this, he tried to tell himself. The world is not sick and evil like this.

My first reaction was that the story of Pino Lella's life in the last twenty-three months of the war could not possibly be true. We would have heard it before. But then I learned that Pino—pronounced pea-no—was still alive some six decades later and back in Italy after nearly thirty years in Beverly Hills and Mammoth Lakes, California.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

As long as the physical universe remains our point of reference, we will never find what we are looking for.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.