Quotes About Truth

We pretend that democracy is real, and

We cannot trifle with this reality, this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world. No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.

And my job needs a fair bit of lying, to tell the truth. - What are you, a reporter?

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Reality itself is mortal

Please Jeff? You're sounding scary." "I'm just saying! Besides, what's scarier than right now?

here's the genuine thoughtfulness and deep consideration for sake of truth and meaningful understanding. There's the recognition that if there were simple answers, we'd have already implemented simple solutions – and that not being the case, people have to work hard to discover the best - imperfect but with iteration ever-less flawed - courses of action and forget the pedantic and simple-minded debate points that so often mar discussions that should lead to progress.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts.

From the road he wrote bitterly to Sagredo: Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?

The good that [Galileo] fought for is not so easy to express. But put it this way: he believed in reality. He believed in paying attention to it, and in learning what he could of it, and then saying what he had learned, even insisting on it. Then in trying to apply that knowledge to make things better, if he could. Put it this way: he believed in science.

the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.

No one knows anything. But I know less than that, because I thought I knew something, but it was wrong. So I know negatively. I unknow.

When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?

Whether life means anything or not, joy is real.

No more fucking around, reality has struck

Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty.

Reality is not a matter of our senses. It can't be visualized.

Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

The real trouble with liars ... was that there could never be any guarantee against their occasionally telling the truth.

Het is nooit prettig om je diepste overtuigingen in hun historische context geplaatst te zien worden.

The science of Interstellar lies in all four domains: Newtonian, relativistic, quantum, and quantum gravity. Correspondingly, some of the science is known to be true, some is an educated guess, and some is speculation.

Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?