Quotes about truth
truth firsts essentials
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
truth people opinion
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted. Daniel Kahneman
truth believe intelligent
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. D. H. Lawrence
truth lying feelings
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.
truth hideous
The truth--a hideous spectacle! Conrad Aiken
truth free-yourself tails
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. Clarence Darrow
truth honesty catching-fire
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
truth asking-questions goal
The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture. Daniel Dennett
truth honesty mean
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want. David Mamet
truth reality people
Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth. Donald Sutherland
truth eye skins
The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.... Dylan Thomas
truth honesty freedom
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. Dwight D. Eisenhower
truth answers impossible
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. Douglas Adams
truth-is consideration highest
But the truth is the highest consideration. Dorothea Dix
truth lying church
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth. Dorothy Allison
truth stupid fighting
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known. Doris Lessing
truth-about-life take-me sad-truth
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life Donna Tartt
truth interesting use
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. Dale Carnegie
truth believe has-beens
Believe nothing until it has been officially denied. Claud Cockburn
truth fog gleam
Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
truth fog gleam
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
truth theory discussion
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion e. e. cummings
truth giving thrill
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. E. B. White
truth taken numbers
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American. Douglas Hofstadter
truth honesty fighting
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting. Andre Gide
truth artist scholar
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
truth saddened refuse
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
truth-is harder
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
truth-is obliged our-lives
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
truth lying hypocrite
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
truth my-truth
This is my truth, tell me yours. Aneurin Bevan
truth reality literature
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anais Nin
truth moving shifting
If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.