Quotes About Truth

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.

That humans are not at the centre of things. You know, the planet is in orbit around the sun. That was a fucking hilarious joke in the 1500s, but Copernicus wasn't a comedian. He was, apparently, the least funny man of the whole Renaissance. He made Raphael look like Richard Pryor. But he was telling the fucking truth.

wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.

To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly, over and over, until the end of time.

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all.

this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish." —James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

a monster who meets a miracle would see a monster'.

People only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Gerçek bilgelik hiçbir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸini bilmekte yatar. -Sokrates

Writing, then, is a kind of seeing. A way to see your insecurities more clearly. A way to shine a light on doubts and dreams and realise what they are actually about. It can dissolve a whole puddle of worries in the bright light of truth.

Because if you believe in them as fact, you are saying the thing that every unpopular scientific breakthrough in history has said." "Which is what?" "That humans are not at the center of things.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

?i-a dat seama c? , oricât de sincer ai fi în via?? , oamenii v?d adev?rul doar dac? este suficient de aprope de realitatea lor.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all" ? Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

What was reality? An objective truth? A collective illusion? A majority opinion? The product of historical understanding? A bream?

The comfort, then, is the weird truth that in one sense we have most in common with others when we feel awkward and alone. Isolation is as universal as it gets.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate word and found it. 'A load of bullshit .

It is tantalising, to be this close to revealing your own truth, like holding a bird you are about to set free.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

So she stopped trying to think about what to write and, in sheer exasperation, just put down the first thing that came to her, the thing that she felt inside her like a defiant silent roar that could overpower any external destruction. The one truth she had, a truth