Quotes About Truth

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

As cliche as that sounds, Maya Angelou is one of the best writers I've ever read. She's very wise and to the point.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The wisest of the wise may err.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.

I wish there was a news channel that really told you what was going on in the world, not just sensationalized news.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.