“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
Truth is simple in theory and messy in practice. These quotes tackle honesty, deception, self-awareness, and the uncomfortable reality that the truths most worth hearing are usually the ones you least want to hear.
“I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.”
“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”
“Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.”
“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”
“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.”
“I always come from truth.”
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
“It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.”
“I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.”
“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”