The truth has never been of any real value to any ... -Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene , Novelist
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Graham Greene Quotes to Explore

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered....
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!...
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Re...
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself....
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are on...
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought....
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey....
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindn...
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in....
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the p...

Truth Quotes to Explore

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't del...
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure....
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either....
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God...
Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth....
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters....
When you are living your truth, you will meet people who love you for that truth....
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world....
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves o...
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can ...