truth and belief Quotes

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.