truth on Fiction

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

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

Of true Christianity is not the truth of God, then the richest vintage that ever the world saw and the noblest wine of which it ever drank did grow up a thorn.

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

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...

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

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

“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...

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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

Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

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

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

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

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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..

No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way-but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and se...

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

In the land whose founding metaphor was the mutuality of John Winthrop’s seventeenth-century vision of a “city set on a hill,” we live more and more in estranged, hostile, exclusive enclaves, linked o...

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

Tell the truth and write about freedom and fight for it, however you can, and you will be richly rewarded.

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...

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

We are a couple of decades past the vastly popular initial run of the TV show The X-Files, but its themes continue to resonate. In the show, two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigate par...

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.