Words, as I'm beginning to appreciate, can make things true.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

— Antisthenes

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”

— Patrick Ness

“Not all truths are explicable, Julia," he said. "And not all explicable things are true.”

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

— Sir Isaac Newton

I want to do things that are true to me and give people a sense of who I am.

— Madison Beer

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

— Hilary Mantel

I think multiple things can be true at the same time. Someone can be menacing and villainous and awful, but also we can feel…

— Julio Torres

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no…

— Alice Hoffman

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

— Jesse Ball

“Some things become true simply by being spoken. When she said to the little girl “I’m here for you”, the architecture of her mind,…

— M.R. Carey

“Words have the power to make things true.”

— Saffron A. Kent

“People say time changes things, but it’s not true. Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they were.”

— House

“I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“People never think things that are true are funny.”

— Melissa Kantor