Quotes About Truth

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

No concept is a carrier of life.

Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?

Life is everything, and you haven't lived it properly until you believe.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

Overall, then, Aristotle just isn't as "sexy" as Plato. His only advantage is being right.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.