Book Quote by Julian Baggini

The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at…

— John Hodgman

“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little…

— Christopher Hitchens

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies…

— Alan Dershowitz

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

— Ratan Tata

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

— Herbert Spencer

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the…

— Margaret Atwood

The importance of truth in books are just not want to see the false world the mirror of truth

— Mak_786

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us…

— Jon Meacham

“Truth is an illusionary ideal, a structure with a foundation of opinion, garnished by selected facts, eroded over time and rebuilt new every generation.”

— David Grant Urban

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

— Stephen Colbert