What Is Truth Quotes

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

By ignorance the truth is known.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

The truth comes out... I think when you fight you find out who you are

I want people to see the truth.

The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.