Quotes about Truth
Honesty is the best policy
— Cicero
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
— Cicero
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
— Margaret Atwood
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
— Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood
Not real can tell us about real.
— Margaret Atwood
Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.
— Margaret Atwood
As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.
— Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.
— Margaret Atwood
Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.
— Margaret Atwood
The living bird is not its labeled bones.
— Margaret Atwood
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
— Margaret Atwood