What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

一个字就是真理。滑,棘手,不可靠。我在这些书中试图讲出真相。

What can you do with with the truth that everyone’s a little sad and a little alone.

每个人都有一点悲伤和孤独，面对这样的事实，你能做些什么呢?

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

活在真理中意味着什么?消极地说它很简单:它意味着不说谎，不躲藏，不伪装。

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

真相有什么关系?我们这些做母亲的不都让我们的儿子们尝到了说谎的滋味吗?从摇篮里开始，谎言就能使他们平静下来，消除他们的忧虑，使他们进入梦乡。

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

当然，出现的结果是，震级假设所有的地震都是相同的，除了一个不变的尺度因子。这比我们想象的更接近事实。

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

几个世纪以来，使人类凌驾于野兽之上的不是棍棒，而是手无寸铁的真理的不可抗拒的力量。

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

这个国家通常发生的情况是，我们的政客没有很好地为我们服务，因为他们不讲真话，不信守诺言。

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

发生的是事实，不是真相。真相是我们对发生的事情的看法。

What is done cannot be undone.

木已成舟。

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

被放置的、有序的、真实的东西永远不足以包含全部的真相:生活总是溢出每一个杯子的边缘。

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

不道德广告和道德广告的区别是什么?不道德的广告使用谎言来欺骗公众;道德广告利用事实欺骗公众。

What is to absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

荒谬到让人难以置信的东西之所以被相信，是因为它荒谬到不能成为谎言。

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

真理是什么?真相并不存在。谁来判断我的经历是否比你的更有说服力呢?没有人能被信任来判断那件事。

What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth.

使作家成为先知的是他讲真话的能力。

What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.

重要的是，我们是想撒谎，还是说真话，写真话，即使永远不可能是真话，永远也不是真话。