Quotes About Truth

But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.

It's fiction! Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

novels, the great lies that tell the truth, the world in its most heroic and salacious forms can always

What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.

Big Ammachi wants Philipose to ask Koshy Saar if this Moby-Dick isn't all made up. "It's entertaining. But isn't it one big lie? Ask him." Koshy Saar's response is indignant. "It's fiction! Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' " "I figured you'd be in.

Will you tell us the stories that make us uncomfortable, but not complicit?

I don't know how to hold this truth, so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down in case, later, no one believes me.

Sometimes, you just want something so hard you have to lie about it, so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute, how real hunger has a real taste

Sometimes I think the memory of an event is better than the event itself.

a clean honesty about our otherness that feels not like the moral but the story.

I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying.

Whenever people say they hate to say something, they actually love to say it.

we don't know he's dead do we? Have we seen a body? Has anyone told us he's dead?" I didn't say anything," he protested. Then don't look at me like I'm crazy. If I'm wrong,let me be wrong , let me be crazy,

Rumors to frighten honest men.

Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in, of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

We often favor feeling right, over being right.

If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly heald opinions.

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly held opinions.

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth As fun as the acronym is, the Bible is neither basic nor simply instructions for what to do before you die.