Truth Quote by David Foster Wallace — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?”

“When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.”

“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”

“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”

“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”

“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.”

“Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.”

“The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.”

“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”