All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“It’s not an easy thing to tell a true story.”

“There’s a weird logic that explains a common truth.”

“Humor is the whole truth.”

“I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.”

“So why did poor artists originally hang around in cafes?””I don’t know. Inspiration from the atmosphere.””Ha! No, you’ve been tricked, too, just like the rest of us. Cafes didn’t have inspirational atmosphere at first. That only came later, when you knew artists had been hanging around in them.”

“He didn’t want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.”

“Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn’t make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.”

“Ellie: “You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil.”Richard: “Good will triumph over evil.”Ellie: “Liar.”

“No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers–not scientists or mystics or any one brand of thinker. By nature, we are scientists and mystics, reductionists and holists, left-brained and right-brained, mixed up creatures trying to catch an occasional glimpse of the truth. The best we can do is to be tolerant of both sides of our nature–knowing that these reflect the twin aspect of the universe–and learn from whatever wisdom is offered.”

“..we all do it. We talk about people we don’t like until they become famous. Then we love ’em.”

“Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists”

“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won’t do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”

“Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans — or even Romans, the most “modern” among people of antiquity — they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth — the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given — far behind them in the past.”

“It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable. And yet I recognise that we live our lives, and even keep our sanity, by the lights of this treachery and this unreliability, just as we build our love of country on these paper worlds of misapprehension and untruth. Perhaps this is our nature, and perhaps unaccountably it is part of our glory as a creature, that we can build our best and most permanent buildings on foundations of utter dust.”

“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”