I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.

Thy word O Lord is the Truth.

The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.

A lie is still a lie even if it's disguised as the truth.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Now, why did Kitty, who was the most deceitful person on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsehood, somehow by merely suffering remind us of reality? Why did her tears reveal to me what I...

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder,...

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and...

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think 'why don't others accept it even when I am right?' It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth.

It's not pretty, but it's veracious.

"What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true."

If what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth

The great lie is like a sword that has been thrust into the heart of humankind.

The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

Eventually, there's a certain limit in telling bare facts through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.

Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

We can believe things that are true, and we can believe things that are not true. Which is more important - - - what is true, or what we believe?

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but...