Quotes about truth
truthful
I am not cruel, only truthful. Sylvia Plath
truth knowledge data
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Ronald Coase
truth hammered
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered. Ron White
truth believe doubt
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment. Rollo May
truth artist style
Remember that the truth is in the details. No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there, too-everyone says so-but maybe truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be you know. Stephen King
truth-is individual
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. Soren Kierkegaard
truth order clothes
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
truth crowds praise
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
truth race age
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
truth desire world
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
truth-is traps
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
truth truth-is mark
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
truth kissing emergencies
Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.
truth facts
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth. Stephen Colbert
truth sun truth-is
Warmth is to sun, as truth is to me.
truth scream x-files
I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.
truth areas
Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area.
truth heroic-deeds humanity
But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself. Stefan Zweig
truth silence criminals
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent....
truth love-you men
A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags… Sophie Kinsella
truth fiction fairy
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. Thomas Gray
truth-is offense ifs
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Thomas Hardy
truth true-and-false speech
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Thomas Hobbes
truth lying men
True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.
truth struggle men
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.
truth-is church-and-state ifs
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself. Thomas Jefferson
truth war errors
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.
truth favourite misers
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! William Wordsworth
truth century accounts
Truth takes no account of centuries.
truth mean reality
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. William James
truth guides sensible
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
truth ideas differences
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
truth real thinking
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.