David Mitchell Quotes

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

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.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Truth is a great flirt.

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Truth is always a delusion.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is overrated.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

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

Fact and fiction are different truths.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

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

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.