Quotes About Truth

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

For years now he'd believed he had no further urgent business with this world, or it with him. But it could be he was wrong.

A silly lie. A lie so small and to so little purpose that it suggested to Miles a way of life, a strategy for confronting the world, and this was further reason—if any was needed—to doubt the truth of everything the man had said inside.

wasn't in fact possible to strip life of its clutter for the simple reason that life was clutter.

Was this how wars happened, the seeds of conflict, large and small, growing in the gap between what people wanted to believe and what they feared must be true?

Richard Russo

Humour is a poor substitution for accuracy, and a poorer proxy for truth

Randall continued to hear the fundamental insincerity of the man, but also knew that the most effective lies were those liberally laced with truth. The lie could be ninety-nine parts truth to one part falsehood, the one tarnished part mingling with the pure until it was all tainted, more false than pure fabrication.

The more he thought about it, life's truest meanings were all childhood meanings, childhood understandings of how things worked, what they were. Do we ever know as deeply as we know in childhood? Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and our world?

Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and our world?

These days his own storytelling was undermined by his stammer, as well as by his conviction that a story had to be true.

But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth—that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don't know people as well as we think we do, that the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.

It seemed probable to me that my companion on the bus had lost someone, and that the loss had changed everything, created a truth that could not be modified, only accepted, reread.

Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

our intellectual quest for truth can never be separated from the cultivation of our moral and aesthetic imagination.

Cross felt that at the heart of all political movements the concept of the basic inequality of man was enthroned and practiced, and the skill of politicians consisted in how cleverly they hid this elementary truth and gained votes by pretending the contrary

Then, first of all, let us admit that there is no such thing as objectivity, no such objective fact as objectivity. Objectivity is a fabricated concept, a synthetic intellectual construction...

One of the greatest ironies of the twentieth century is that when communication has reached its zenith, when the human voice can encircle the globe in a matter of seconds, when man can project the image of his face thousands of miles, it is almost impossible to know with any degree of accuracy the truth of a political situation only a hundred miles distant! Propaganda jams the media of communication.

If you think I'm telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. When

While listening to the vivid language of the sermons I was pulled toward emotional belief, but as soon as I went out of the church and saw the bright sunshine and felt the throbbing life of the people in the streets I knew that none of it was true and that nothing would happen.

Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.

There are no solo high performers. The best support teams are tight open and honest they have learned that agreement is not a priority but understanding the truth is.