Taylor Caldwell Quotes

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

No one individual can tell the truth.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Truth happens to an idea

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

I never aspire to be objective because I don't believe in objectivity. It's important to be truthful, and it's important to make sure that the audience has a solid sense of what the expectation should be of a particular film.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

Is not the truth the truth?