Vacuously True Statements

Famous quotes containing the words true and/or statements:

“The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)