Greg Egan Quotes

- 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.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

The truth is overrated.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

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

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Truth is a big concept.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

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.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.