“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Last update Sept. 27, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth." by Carlos Ruiz Zafón?

Carlos Ruiz Zafón photo

Carlos Ruiz Zafón149

Spanish writer 1964

Related quotes

“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

“[This] science is the work of the human mind, which is destined rather to study than to know, to seek the truth rather than to find it.”

Évariste Galois (1811–1832) French mathematician, founder of group theory

Of mathematics — as quoted in Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980) by Morris Kline, p. 99.

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”

Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher

"Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art", Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986).

“Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.”

LeVar Burton (1957) actor, director

“After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.”

Genesis P-Orridge (1950) British musician and writer

Thee Reversal of Fate

“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

Willa Cather book The Song of the Lark

Part VI, Ch. 11
The Song of the Lark (1915)

“If we believe that there are some irreducibly normative truths, we might be believing what we ought to believe. If there are such truths, one of these truths would be that we ought to believe that there are such truths. If instead we believe that there are no such truths, we could not be believing what we ought to believe. If there were no such truths, there would be nothing that we ought to believe.”

Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons

Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 619

“The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.”

Daniel Gottlieb (1939–2010) French rabbi

Source: Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

“The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.”

Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer

Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 203)

“If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.”

Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger

Related topics