Quotes About Truth

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

But you're wrong about these pictures, you're wrong about this house, and you're wrong about Teddy. There is some seriously weird shit happening right under your nose and you're living in denial!

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' That's Spock in Star Trek VI, but he's paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.

You know, there's still guys in my department who think the murder really happened? I tell them the truth, and they act like I'm trying to stir things up, a black woman cop handing out race cards.

I think we have to consider every possibility. 'When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When you eliminate the impossible, all that remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

People in South Philly don't spend a lot of time talking about French royalty. Still, I don't want to look like an idiot, so I shovel on more lies.

Freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe

Circula una etimología popular que asegura que la etimología de «testigo» (y cualquier derivado como «testamento») proviene de la costumbre que tenían los romanos de apretarse los testículos con la mano cuando juraban decir la verdad.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.

The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?" Wendy Watson: "What do you think?" The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication.

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate between what really happened and what is pure invention. Everything becomes a narrative and sounds fictitious even if it's true.

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.

No vi razon para no decirle la verdad, y sin embargo tuve la sensacion de no hacerlo al hacerlo.

Cuando han pasado muchos años, o incluso no tantos, la gente se cuenta los hechos como le conviene y llega a creerse su propia versión, su distorsión.

Vivir en el engaño es fácil, y aún más, es nuestra condición natural, y por eso no debería dolernos tanto'.