Uncovering Reality Quotes

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulty, but is never finally suppressed.

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Time discovers truth.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

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

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.