Paul Valery Quotes

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is not to be taken until he is right on every subject, witnesses will be extremely scarce.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T" is kind of the juxtaposition of all the many, many, many truths that seem true to people at the time.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

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

No one individual can tell the truth.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

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

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Reality is a question of perspective.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.