Truth

"Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living."

"When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth."

"One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong."

"In no man's land, alien is the queen."

"Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it."

"Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust."

"America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth."

"Nothing exists without its opposite."

"I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are."

"Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth."

"A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money."

"When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion."

"Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth."

"The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind."

"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."

"Ellie: "You could lie to me. You could tell me to be encouraged, that good will triumph over evil."Richard: "Good will triumph over evil."Ellie: "Liar."

"The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute."

"The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened."

"Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth -- the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given -- far behind them in the past."

"You govern people, you do good and bad things. If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside."