All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.”

“Stand up for what is just against the unjust.”

“Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.”

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

“Making love with strangers is how you get hurt.”

“However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.”

“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”

“You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.”

“It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.”

“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish.Near the top of the ladder we encounter curious mixtures of untruth and truth that exert a lasting fascination on the intellectual community.”

“We were so little when you took away all our sins.”

“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“Bagi sebagian orang kebenaran itu penting, sebab mereka dapat menerimanya. Mereka dapat menghadapi kebenaran dengan tabah – ketabahan yang hanya dimiliki orang-orang yang mengharapkan kehidupan yang cerah.”

“It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.”