“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
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“I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.”
“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
“But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”
“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.”
“The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
“Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.”
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
“In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.”
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.”
“When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.”
“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
“The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”
“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”
“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
“When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.”
“The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.”