Larry Wall Quotes

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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

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.

There are always many sides to the truth.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

I have a point of view on the issues, but it's a complex point of view that really can't be summed up in a sentence or two. I'm not being intentionally vague or mushy, it's just that - in my mind - the real answer is complicated.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

Multiple descriptions are better than one.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

the truth is often a mixed message

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

There is always room for at least two truths.