Truth Quotes

"The self is a performance that becomes real through repetition."

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."

"Anything that's hypocritical, false, or deceptive cannot be tolerated."

"The scientific man is the only one who is not a fraud."

"Nature will tell you a direct lie if she is given a chance."

"I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, the moment facts are shown to be opposed to it."

"Those who go out into the world with the belief that there is a hidden meaning behind all events will suffer a tremendous shock of disappointment."

"Believe nothing you have not yourself verified."

"The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely, that man is descended from some lowly organized form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many."

"In science, there are no shortcuts to truth."

"The pursuit of truth requires both passion and humility."

"We must attend to the mundane violences that structure everyday life."

"The archive tells us what was deemed grievable, legible, recognizable in a particular moment."

"The archive produces the possibility of intelligibility and recognition."

"The archive is never complete; what is remembered is always a choice."

"The straight way is assumed as the default orientation."

"The straight line is a fiction."

"The straight life is a lived fiction."

"The straight is always crooked."

"Truth may be buried, but it cannot be destroyed."

"Authenticity is the rarest form of rebellion."

"The voice of truth may be quiet, but it is never silenced."

"We are always already implicated in the systems we critique."

"The present moment is always contested and ambiguous."

"We must attend to the silences and absences in our narratives."

"Objectivity requires acknowledging our implication in what we study."

"We cannot know the world from nowhere."