Quotes about Truth

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

I know they's a lots of things in a family history that just plain aint so. Any family. The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the saying goes.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a muddied field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is a folly. The world knows what you love.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.