Quotes About Truth

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they're all the same.

if lying would be a crime, we would all be in jail right now

It's true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Embrace reality by imagination.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.