Truth Quotes

"The observer is not innocent but implicated."

"The silences in history are as telling as what is explicitly stated."

"We are always performing; there is no authentic self beneath the performance."

"The personal testimony is a form of knowledge that dominant systems seek to devalue."

"The silenced archive is where we can learn what systems of power seek to hide."

"We are always already implicated in systems of domination."

"We are all complicit in systems we seek to change."

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"I have tried to pay attention to every fact which could tell against me."

"It is impossible to conceal our beliefs for long."

"I would rather understand one small truth than believe a thousand great lies."

"Truth shifts depending on where you stand to look at it."

"Objectivity is about particular and specific embodied positions."

"Nature is not hidden and needs no unmasking."

"Every perspective is a view from somewhere, never a view from nowhere."

"The archive is never complete; there are always silences we must interrogate."

"Ephemera matter. The things we throw away tell us who we are."

"The archive contains both what was said and what was unsaid."

"Truth is not given; it is made."

"To thine own self be true"

"What we call facts are always situated, always partial."

"The question 'what is this?' always depends on context."

"What counts as real is always contested and negotiable."

"Truth is not singular; it is multiple and contested."

"The idea that we can simply observe the world without changing it is a dangerous illusion."

"We cannot escape responsibility by claiming objectivity or distance from our objects of study."

"Accountability requires that we acknowledge our complicity in the world we study."

"The pursuit of objectivity has often obscured our responsibilities to the material world."

"The question 'what is real?' cannot be separated from 'what matters?'"