Quotes about truth
truth errors grace
A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
truth sleep errors
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
truth errors again-and-again
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
truth eye trying
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
truth
There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
truth lying errors
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
truth men shows
Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
truth-is ahimsa
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. Mahatma Gandhi
truth simple men
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. James Thurber
truth reality giving
Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth. Emile Hirsch
truth book boring
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. Emilie Autumn
truth shut-up grows
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola
truth soul deprived
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth. Epictetus
truth opinion conquer
It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
truth mean victory
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
truth truth-is
Truth - is as old as God - ... Emily Dickinson
truth sun opinion
Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.
truth light way
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. Ellis Peters
truth half demand
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
truth mean method
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. Edward Tufte
truth taught truth-is
The truth is lived, not taught.... Hermann Hesse
truth faces millions
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
truth opposites ifs
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.
truth conflict
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True. Henry Van Dyke
truth lying moving
The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
truth found dare
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
truth often-is wonder
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Henri Poincare
truth men giving
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.
truth giving something-new
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
truth geometry
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
truth knowledge science
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
truth lying revolution
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. Henrik Ibsen
truth freedom enemy
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority