Gore Vidal Quotes

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

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

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

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

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

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

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

There are many levels of truth.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

There is no truth. There is only perception.