John Edgar Wideman Quotes

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

When I say something, I mean it.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one individual can tell the truth.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

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