Quotes About Truth

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Children are infinitely credulous. My Lisa was a dull child, but even so she came up with things that pleased and startled me. 'Are there dragons?' she asked. I said that there were not. 'Have there ever been?' I said all the evidence was to the contrary. 'But if there is a word dragon,' she said, 'then once there must have been dragons.

History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.

I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant." "Is it only lies that are Pleasant?" "Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

I told him that my father was dead and that to take her mind off it I had told my mother that I was pregnant. I said it had taken her mind off it wonderfully, so far; and that it also happened to be true.

There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

The greatest thing about provable reality is that by definition reality is shared. Every argument is really an agreement—an agreement that there is a reality that can be shared, judged, and discussed. To argue over whether the speed of light is constant or Batman could beat up the Lone Ranger is to share the parameters. God is solipsistic; reality is shared.

There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.

Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

Science is so important because it's a way to find truth, but the truth doesn't depend on it. Reality exists outside of humans. Religion does not.

Our strong sun darkens the colour of your skin to the colour of ours, but it cannot change what lies underneath.

admit to it in court, or certainly in a sworn statement. Even more unlikely.

Joe, if people behave well, the truth can't harm them. If they behave badly – correction, if they behave badly and then try to cover that behaviour up, then in my opinion they deserve everything they get.

Is it the darkness that is light, or the luminous that is dark? A choice must be made. The same is true of history; people choose what to see, what is light and what is darkness.

Förr hade jag hemliga drömmar att det vore möjligt att lägga ihop allting, så att allting blev färdigt, tillslutet. Att till sist kunna säga: så var det, det var så det gick till, detta är hela historien. Men det vore ju mot bättre vetande.

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

You're probably right,' I said, but to be honest, I had forgotten to be a Communist that night.

It's a bitch, ain't it? The things we assume.

The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The

Forms more real than living man,Nurslings of immortality!

Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanized automaton.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.