Truth Quotes by David Foster Wallace

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

— David Foster Wallace

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

— David Foster Wallace

Capital T-truth is about life before death.

— David Foster Wallace

“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

— David Foster Wallace

“The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle…

— David Foster Wallace

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot…

— David Foster Wallace

“None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T…

— David Foster Wallace

“Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame…

— David Foster Wallace

Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or…

— David Foster Wallace

“LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of…

— David Foster Wallace

“If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit…

— David Foster Wallace

Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of…

— David Foster Wallace

“Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is… True heroism is…

— David Foster Wallace

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame…

— David Foster Wallace

“Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame…

— David Foster Wallace

“JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life? LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow. JAY: Honest meaning closer to the…

— David Foster Wallace

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing…

— David Foster Wallace

“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed…

— David Foster Wallace

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment…

— David Foster Wallace

“This, according to the fellows who saw me as fit for a Service career, put me ahead of the curve, to understand…

— David Foster Wallace

“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing…

— David Foster Wallace

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding…

— David Foster Wallace

“But the truth is it’s hard for me to know what I really think about any of the stuff I’ve written. It’s…

— David Foster Wallace

“The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for the universes inside…

— David Foster Wallace

“The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and speed of everything that…

— David Foster Wallace

“Some people, from what I've seen, boo, when they lie, they become very still and centered and their gaze very concentrated and…

— David Foster Wallace

“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though…

— David Foster Wallace

“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as…

— David Foster Wallace