Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

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

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

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.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

At times truth may not seem probable.

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.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

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

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

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.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

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

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.