Quotes About Truth

I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they're suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn't even know how to write that.

As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.