What Is Truth Quotes

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

There's enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can see it, if you act from it, it'll show up for you. That's the truth.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

Poetry's object is truth.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

It is so ridiculous to limit oneself to one version of the truth.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.