Quotes about Truth
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
Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he was true.
— Margaret Atwood
Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.
— Margaret Atwood
Stupid, stupid, stupid: I'd believed all that claptrap about life, liberty, democracy, and the rights of the individual I'd soaked up at law school. These were eternal verities and we would always defend them. I'd depended on that, as if on a magic charm.
— Margaret Atwood
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
— Margaret Atwood
The way I understand things, the Bible may have been thought out by God, but it was written down by men. And like everything men write down, such as the newspapers, they got the main story right but some of the details wrong.
— Margaret Atwood
After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.
— Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
— Margaret Atwood