Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. L. Austin

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

J. L. Austin

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

J. L. Austin

What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substanceor a qualityor a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.

Ken Wilber

"Integrative" simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible-from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender sciences of spirituality.

Ken Wilber

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Ken Wilber

The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.

Kathy Freston

We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!

Julia Ward Howe

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

Ken Kesey

I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

Ken Kesey

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary."

Ken Kesey

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Kris Kristofferson

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Ravi Zacharias

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Randy Quaid

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

Tom Cruise

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Sissela Bok

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

Rajneesh

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Sojourner Truth

Truth burns up error.

Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Sojourner Truth

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Sojourner Truth

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Socrates

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

Michael Servetus

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Michael Shermer

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

Michael Scott

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

John Milton

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

John Milton

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

John Milton

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

John Milton

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

John Milton

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

John Milton

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

John Milton

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

John Milton

The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?