Quotes About Truth

Hakikati güvenli?e ye? tutan bir ya?am biçimi içinde elde edilen büyük ba?ar? ve bulgunun yazg?s? ?udur: Senin taraf?ndan büyük bir açgözlülükle yalan?p yutulmak ve sonra gene senin taraf?ndan d??k? olarak at?lmak. Büyük hakikati de?il de küçücük yanl??? ya?am?n?n yol göstericisi olarak gördün.

Tepetaklak duruyorsun, her ?eyi tersten görüyorsun; böyle durmakla, özgürlük türküsünün e?li?inde dans etti?ini san?yorsun. Gördü?ün bu karabasandan uyanacaks?n küçük adam ve göreceksin ki, yata??ndan yuvarlanm??, çaresizlik içinde yerde yatmaktas?n. Çünkü sana bir ?ey verenden çal?yor, seni soyana bir ?eyler veriyorsun.

Senin "kamuoyu" dedi?in ?ey, bütün küçük adam ve küçük kad?nlar?n görü?lerinin toplam?d?r. Her küçük adam ve küçük kad?n?n do?ru ve yanl?? görü?leri vard?r. Yanl?? görü?leri vard?r, çünkü ba?ka küçük adam ve küçük kad?nlar?n yanl?? görü?lerinden korkmaktad?rlar. Bu korku yüzünden do?ru görü?ler dile getirilmez.

Gençler her zaman hakl?d?r, ben eminim bundan, hakl? de?ilseler de haklar? vard?r. ?unu demek istiyorum: Kendi tecrübelerini edinmeye sonuna kadar haklar? vard?r. Kötü tecrübeler olsa bile bunlar, ders ç?kar?rlar.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

But not to know error is to lie, is to spit up poison through the harrowing margins of weakened mineral campaigns. It is the deeply filtered and the wretched who deny this, who test themselves with exoteric perfection, who turn their branded melodias to simple outward gain. In contrast to the rotation of immensity, to the treble glare of inward cyclical rarity, such outward wit carries less than the power of negation.

As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Life is often more complex than the stories we like to tell about it.

message, unless it is immediately rejected as a lie, will have the same effect on the associative system regardless of its reliability.

it is hard to agree with reality if you cannot agree with yourself.

Put your ideas in verse if you can; they will be more likely to be taken as truth.

people who make judgments behave as if a true value exists, regardless of whether it does.

Considering how little we know, the confidence we have in our beliefs is preposterous—and it is also essential.

optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One

The familiarity of one phrase in the statement sufficed to make the whole statement feel familiar, and therefore true.

Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.