Quotes About Truth

Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

I have to adhere to the truth," I said.

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

Anthropology largely neglects the individual to deal in generalizations. Generalizations always tell a little lie in the service of a greater truth.

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.

Although we often use the word "prove" in everyday life, strictly speaking, NOTHING CAN BE PROVED. This is simply because NO amount of evidence is sufficient – there's always the possibility of new, conflicting, evidence.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o' the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Preserving freedom of speech maximizes the chance of truth emerging from its collision with error and half-truth.

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.

Rather face the consequences if the truth rather than the reprocussions of a lie

You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.