Quotes About Truth

l'histoire est connaissance mutilée. Un historien ne dit pas ce qu'a été..., mais ce qu'il est encore possible d'en savoir.

La connaissance historique est taillée sur le patron de documents mutilés.

Far from being opposed to the truth, fiction is only its by-product.

Ce qui m'intéressait était l'érudition : elle est un « jeu de vérité » amusant, qui découvre, déchiffre, explique ou explicite l'inconnu ou le méconnu ; elle est donc prête à croire que toute « vérité » reçue a des chances d'être fausse, au risque de déplaire, de mettre l'opinion au défi.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody—there's a lot of people.

Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what's best for the patient—rules. And that's the truth.

Everyone dies, including me—which may be sooner rather than later. I need to be sure about where I'll go when I die. I need to be ready for whatever happens. It's time to revisit my beliefs. My eternal destination depends on knowing the truth.

have to be certain of the truth. The whole truth . . . the real truth . . . about eternal life.

I'm in love with that girl," she said out loud in amazement, because she knew that this was a life-changing thing and life-changing things should be said aloud, should have a moment in time, and a place in the air, some molecular structure to make them real. I'm in love with that girl, she heard as it reverberated inside her head. And it was truth, she realised, as things are which you don't think, but discover have always existed.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

You know, I am so sick of cuttin' on my television and everyone on it is obsessed with livin' forever. Well, I have a news flash: Ain't none of us gettin' out of her alive.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes ("News From The World")

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)

Truly humble people are grounded in reality; they neither preen under illusions of greatness nor suffer agonies of self-hatred.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

Men hear what they like and invent the rest.

It had been a false spring, a lie like all the other lies, and I found myself wondering it it would ever really come.

Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar?

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

Love is a beautiful liar? Beauty was a liar too.

The things of the world knew so much more than we did and lived them more truly. The thorn trees had no grief or fear. The constellations didn't fight or hold themselves back, nor did the translucent hook of the moon. Everything was momentary and endless.