worldview and perspective on Truth and Fiction

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction . . . For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen...

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The shortest distance between a human being and the truth is a story.

Truth enjoys but a short time of triumph between two long eras — in the first of them it is condemned as paradoxical, in the last is despised as trivial..

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Fiction does not ask us to believe things,” he points out, “but to imagine them.” “Imagining the heat of the sun on your back is about as different an activity as can be from believing that it will be...

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Who will tell you the truth? An enemy who hates you bitterly, and a friend who loves you dearly.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

“What is real?” “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day . . . “Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you . . .” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes...

The English word "truth" comes from a Germanic root that also gives rise to our word "troth," as in the ancient vow "I pledge thee my troth." With this word one person en...

It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil,...

It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.