Quotes About Truth

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.

If one person tells a lie and ten people hear it and pass it on, does it make it true?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

The most important part of living realistically is to hold a true view of God. God is ultimate reality. He's the greatest factor in all that's real. When we let the truth about Him nourish us and remold our minds, this revolutionizes our lives.

Truth is like the moon in the sky. Words are like a finger. A finger can point to the moon's location, but it is not the moon. To see the moon, you must look past the finger. To look for the truth in books, the Sixth Patriarch was saying, is like mistaking the finger for the moon. The moon and the finger are not the same thing. Not same, old Jiko would have said. Not different, either.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories.

In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth.

even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives

In even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

Ze truth about stories is that is all we are.' A famous Cherokee writer named Thomas King once said this. We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too." I wondered if the Aleph was in his poem, or if I was. That would be weird, to be in someone else's poem, or someone else's book.

if the washroom was unreal, then none of what he remembered from that afternoon in the washroom could be real, either.

and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose,and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

And so, yes. The Tidy Magic that Cory read was different from the Tidy Magic that Annabelle read, and different, too, from the book that Aikon thought she wrote and her critics on Twitter condemned—and yet all these books were accurate, complete and perfect, just as they are.

God is a story," he said. "I believe in stories, and God knows this. Stories are real, my boy. They matter. If you lose your belief in your story, you vill lose yourself.

In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument, which he offers to the reader to permit him to discern what, without the book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. The reader's recognition in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its truth. —Marcel Proust, Le temps retrouvé

It's funny that the question Aikon asked herself - What is real? - is the same one as mine. It's like she knew somehow, or maybe everyone just has the same question?

Nothing is simple. There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

Information about toxicity in food is widely available, but people don't want to hear it.

chasing a lie smaller than her dreams.... from: Save Me the Plums

Everything here is true, but it might not be entirely factual.

As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently.

Forcing the carefully planned lie out with all the casualness he could muster, he said