David Mitchell Quotes

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

No authority is higher than reality.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

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

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Truth is always a delusion.

A lot of things just aren't true any more.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Facts are stubborn things.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

People deny things that are true all the time.