Literal Truth Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity;…
— Charles Darwin
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
— Elmer Davis
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or…
— Carl Sagan
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Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
— Iain McGilchrist
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In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
— Theresa Breslin
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Everything Scripture teaches about sin and redemption assumes the literal truth of the first three chapters of Genesis. If we wobble to any degree on…
— John Macarthur
Who Wrote These Literal Truth Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Literal Truth Quotes as follows: