Veronica Roth Quotes

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

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

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

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's 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.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this "minority?" It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible.

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.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.