Quotes about truth
truth nice reality
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust). Kenny Smith
truth philosophy perception
Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.
truth past telling-the-truth
Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present. Ken Loach
truth long may
Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours. Margaret Bourke-White
truth-is heresy shocking
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy. Margaret Deland
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use. Mark Twain
truth alive truth-is
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
truthful factual
Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual. P. J. O'Rourke
truth-is
You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.
truth painting
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you. Paul Cezanne
truth-is prove-it prove
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
truth men forgive-me
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? Oscar Wilde
truth independent facts
Truth is independent of facts always.
truth being-true
Every thing to be true must become a religion.
truth believe being-true
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
truth-is adages behinds
Truth is never far behind. Madonna Ciccone
truthful spontaneous individual
Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! Lydia M. Child
truth authority
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. Lucretia Mott
truth authority
Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
truth knowledge giving
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? Lucretius
truth mean people
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. Louis Kronenberger
truth earth
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
truth suits cases
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. Margaret Oliphant
truth-is vindicated
I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told. Michael Jackson
truth perfect joy
I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment. Meshell Ndegeocello
truth sarcasm journalism
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
truth way strict
Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
truth heard has-beens
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
truth fiction stranger
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
truth real gentleman
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
truth honesty memories
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
truth truth-is homely
Homely truth is unpalatable.
truth lying men
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.