Andre Maurois Quotes

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

People believe what they want to believe.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

The Republicans love the truth, but they hate facts.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire

… facts are like cows. If you stare them in the face hard enough, they generally run away.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

People are going to believe what they want to believe.

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.