Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

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

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

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.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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

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

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

How do I hold my truth to be the truth when everyone else believes their truth to be different.

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

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

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

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

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

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.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

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