Quotes About Truth

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No." --Leonard Nimoy

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all

The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.

Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

In order to get over a problem it helps to look at it. You can't climb a mountain that you pretend isn't there.

There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous.

To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.' – Socrates (after losing our quiz!!!!)

Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now.

We only know what we perceive.  Everything we perceive is ultimately just our perception of it. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.

Most gossip is envy in disguise.

you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.