William Faulkner Quotes

I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one must begin to talk about it. In such a case the truth lies not in the middle, but rather all around, like a sack, which, with each new opinion one stuffs into it, changes its form, and becomes more and more firm.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

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.

the truth is often a mixed message

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

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

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

- 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.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.