Alfred Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.”

— Nicole Sobon

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— H.L. Mencken

“The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.”

— Anonymous

“We realized that the closest we'd ever get to objective truth was the belief of the majority, so we enthroned the majority and ignored…

— Isaac Marion

'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it -…

— Charles Dickens

“Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

“Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.”

— Charles Darwin

“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.”

— Anthony Trollope