Quotes About Truth

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Didn't lie give you

the only thing of any use is the truth.

the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.

Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161

LIBRARY, where they keep the truth serum, and the magic carpets" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

Truths are best perceived after looking at all sides.

Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself So our condition makes escape impossible? -- we breathe and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle

While the other world religions emphasized mystery and intuition, Christianity alone embraced reason and logic as the primary guide to religious truth.

Lógico es todo lo que se entiende aunque no sea verdad.

Knowledge begins through them and is

Of all absurdities the most absurd, <> is to disavow the force and efficacy of the senses: Whatever has been seen at some time is true. And if reason cannot distinguish the cause Why those things that, seen near at hand, were square Are seen round at a distance, still it is better Through lack of argument to err in accounting For the causes of either shape Rather than to allow things clearly seen to elude your grasp, Attack the grounds of belief, and tear up the

The same trick that the senses play on our

There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to learning, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics.

da la impresión de que se ha inventado una realidad falsa y no sabemos si realmente cree en ella o sólo lo pretende.

The Lord is self-existent and true, and therefore worthy of the confidence of men. He will live when all the creatures die, and His fullness will abide when all second causes are exhausted. To Him, therefore, let us direct our expectation, and on Him let us rest for our confidence.

Joseph Brodsky wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory. To memorize, then, is to restore intimacy." The restoration of intimacy is more than an act of love; it is an attempt, by writing down a lost world before it dissolves, to bring memory closer to truth. It

Management wizard Jim Collins, best-selling author of Good to Great and Built to Last, argues that what must glaringly separate great companies from mediocre ones is the latter's tendency "to explain away the brutal facts rather than to confront the brutal facts head-on.