Quotes about Truth

Does it surprise you as much as it does me, this correspondence between things as they are and the pictures we have of them in our minds?

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness.

Let me just share with you something. Jesus makes this quite clear: there's never been a real teacher except One, and it's Christ. There's never been a real prophet: they're all types of One greater than themselves - Christ.