Quotes About Truth

Be true to your subject and you will be far more likely to create something that is timeless.

If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, "What's wrong with it? How can I make it better?", you are more likely to get a truthful, critical answer

The truth of the story lies in the details.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

An unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not yourself at the same time.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...

Would it not be better to learn the truth once and for all instead of living in a state of perpetual uncertainty?

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

George Washington chopped down the tree, and then he threw away the money. Do you understand? He was telling us an essential truth. Namely, that money doesn't grow on trees. This is what made our country great, Peter. Now George Washington's picture is on every dollar bill. There is an important lesson to be learned from all this.

He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.

The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.

Of all the interpretations I've considered over the years, this is the one I like best. That doesn't mean it's true, but as long as it could be true, it pleases me to think it is.

I am a man, not an angel, and if the grief that overtook me occasionally blurred my vision and led to certain lapses of conduct, that in no way should cast doubt on the truth of my story. Before anyone tries to discredit me by pointing to those stains on my record, I come forward of my own free will and openly pronounce my guilt to the world. These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear.

Una mentira nunca puede deshacerse. Ni siquiera la verdad es suficiente.

Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts.

Mentir es una mala cosa. Hace que lamentes haber nacido. Y no haber nacido es una maldición. Estás condenado a vivir fuera del tiempo. Y cuando vives fuera del tiempo no hay día y noche. Ni siquiera tienes la oportunidad de morirte".

La primera vez que entendía que la memoria es un lugar, un sitio de verdad al que se podía ir

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Toda vida es inexplicable. Por muchos hechos que se cuenten, por muchos datos que se muestren, lo esencial se resiste a ser contado.

Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

But even the facts do not always tell the truth.