Quotes about Truth

You can fool history sometimes, but you can't fool the memory of your intimates.

The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention

But people desire fair government. You say that constantly." "They want to believe in heroes, also. And villains. Especially when very frightened. It's less taxing than the truth.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

People had to manage terrible truths.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

If no one has said outright that spying on Mr. Axelroot is a sin, then God probably couldn't technically hold it against me.

It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born. Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. A lightning that cannot strike twice, our lesson learned in the hateful speed of light. A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we're talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.