Quotes About Truth

You don't have to be a philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are

Collective memory, the foundation of any culture's narrative, is a historical; mythology, laces with figments of truth, is essential to forming a country's founding identity and maintaining social cohesion.

Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive.

the heavens and the earth. In fact, that's the only big difference between Jesus

Two plus two always equals four. Balls dropped off roofs always fall. Your every thought always affects physical reality.

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In fact, in his book Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." —ORVILLE WRIGHT, AMERICAN INVENTOR

I have to jettison every sorrow, every terror, every misconception, every lie that stands between my conscious mind and what I know in my heart to be true. … I have expanded my reality from a string of solid facts, as narrow, strong, and cold as a razor's edge, to a wild chaos of possibility.

I believe—like religion—that the glimmer, the metaphor, if you will, knows a great deal more than I do. And if I stay out of its way, it will reveal itself to me. I will become not so much its keeper as its conduit, and I will pass its wisdom on to the reader, without actually getting in its way" (79).

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.

The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

Sex makes you get real.

If you think you're going to play an angel you're greatly mistaken,

Laura hated to lie, but she was pretty sure she'd hate prison more.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

Rather, Dolto insisted that the content of what you say to a baby matters tremendously. She said it was crucial that parents tell their babies the truth in order to gently affirm what the babies already know. In fact, she thought that babies begin eavesdropping on adult conversations—and intuiting the problems and conflicts swirling around them—from the womb.

Look at things the way they are and not the way you wish they was and you'll get along all right.

Even now that I'd learned i wasn't human

A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know what you needed to know about real life. And you could be a part of it. Naturally, I got a lot of things wrong.