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Truthfulness Quotes (page 127)

Ayn Rand quote: "I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill..."
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. Ayn Rand
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many..."
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. Friedrich Nietzsche
William Goldman quote: "When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And..."
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it. William Goldman
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. Azar Nafisi
Horace Walpole quote: "In science, mistakes always precede the truth."
In science, mistakes always precede the truth. Horace Walpole
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach. Orson Scott Card
But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only'. We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Terry Goodkind
The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful. E. M. Forster
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth. Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. Joyce Carol Oates
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde quote: "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. George MacDonald
Pablo Picasso quote: "Art is the lie that revels the truth"
Art is the lie that revels the truth Pablo Picasso
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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