Quotes About Truth

Good newspapers believe in giving a balanced view of the world. Fine. Some people then exploit that belief and use it to balance truth with falsehood.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

I've made bad records but I've never made a dishonest record, let's put it that way.

Philosophy, in its longing to rationalize, formalize, define, delimit, to terminate enigma and uncertainty, to co-operate wholeheartedly with the police, is nihilistic in the ultimate sense that it strives for the immobile perfection of death. But creativity cannot be brought to an end that is compatible with power, for unless life is extinguished, control must inevitably break down. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

What is new to modernity is a rate of the obsolescence of truth...

To be fair, what looks like conspiracy often turns out to be bureaucracy.

I guess you think this is some kind of character-building exercise, too, then??" "Do you REALLY think the last thing I'm gonna do before I die is admit someone else was right??

But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that sees itself as worldly and wise.

Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

True love isn't a fleeting thing; contrarily, it is a current of water that replenishes effortlessly, as its inherent, underlying duty is to do just that. Like truth, love shall set you free.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

If the truth was a woman she'd be a whore. She'd be an extremely supple, highly sinuous, ridiculously wanton slut.

There is no truth. Life is just a series of coincidences, accidents and random urges which we carefully forge – for our own, sick reasons – into a convenient design. Everything is arbitrary. Only art exists to make the arbitrary congeal. Not memory or God or love, even. Only art. The truth is simply an idea, a structure which we employ – in very small doses – to render life bearable. It's just a convenient mechanism.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

Everything the king does is a lie.

Me, I'll just continue to pretend I'm both blind and stupid, and brightly say the things other people find foolish, and so make the truth foolish.

There is no perfect security. There's always something. Always.

She turned her head slightly, to examine me out of each eye, as though each saw a different world but only one could be trusted.

She will never say what the girl's true name is, or who the other was, and the stories are never the same. And always the cave is hidden.

What mattered was the truth, rising like birdsong, like the scent of flowers opening to the sun, of her wyrd. Cian's hand beneath hers. It always had been so. It had always been meant to be so. Fate goes over as it must.

She heard the secret, perhaps a secret no one wholly mortal should hear.

She breathed deep. She was Anglisc. She would not burn. She would endure and hold true to her oath. An oath, a bond, a boast. A truth, a guide, a promise. To three gods in one. To the pattern. For even gods were part of the pattern, even three-part gods. The pattern was everything. Of everything. Over everything.