Malorie Blackman Quotes

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The facts will take us where the facts will take us.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Just because you believe it doesn't make it so.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

I found that most people don't really want to know the truth. There are plenty of people who want to know the truth on their terms or require that the truth be contained within certain boundaries of comfort. But truth can never be known this way. You have to seek truth from a place of not knowing, and that can be a very threatening place because we think we already know the truth or we are afraid of what the truth might be.

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.