Quotes About Truth

É. Naqueles tempos de infância a gente sonhava. Os sonhos eram pequenos e cabiam num sapato. Hoje os sapatos são muito maiores. Só que não nos esquecemos dos sonhos. De modo que não há presente que nos faça sorrir... Já não sabemos o nome da nossa verdade. Daí a nostalgia sem remédio.

People who say … they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age.

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

Remember that one day of your idleness kills 12,000 souls ... there is only one thing that may be said in your exoneration-that you do not know the truth. This is possible, The villain does his job so shrewdly that only a few guess the truth. We have told you several times. Is it possible that you believe our murderers more than you believe us?

A [real] man does not flee from truth

The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.

Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

We have done with Hope and Honor, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung;And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.