Quotes About Truth

Will you at last take your red-conservative and blue-progressive-colored glasses off your blinkered consciousness and SEE who really is destroying your country and your constitutional freedoms? It ain't ISIS or al-Qaeda.

The use of symbols and metaphors, the endless interplay between illusion and reality, the difficulty of getting at a commonly accepted truth: these are all things that make Italy both frustrating and endlessly intriguing—not least because they raise the tantalizing question of why a people who spend so much of their time peering behind masks and facades should nevertheless be so concerned with appearances, with what they see on the surface.

one reason Italians place such emphasis on what is visible is because they assume it is a representation of something that is not.

the notion of objective truth is something that in Italy often causes unease.

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

At heart I'm still a straight-laced, fuddy-duddy science journalist who believes, knows, that science can discover true facts about the world. But my view of truth has become more expansive lately.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

Samuel Johnson said, 'It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Sometimes confusion is a necessary way to slow things down until we have within us the strength and courage to find the best and truest answer instead of settling for an easier, quicker one along the way.

O holy simplicity!

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

Freemasons, anti-Masons, and interested historians will apparently have to live with the simple fact that constant repetition does not create truth.

Why do I always have to be right?

You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord Hilts

All truth is simple, but all that's simple is not truth"

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

If an inhabitant of another planet should visit the earth, he would receive, on the whole, a truer notion of human life by attending an Italian opera than he would by reading Emerson's volumes. He would learn from the Italian opera that there were two sexes; and this, after all, is probably the fact with which the education of such a stranger ought to begin.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.

While I paid, they exchanged some pieties on how everyone has his or her own beliefs, et cetera. Then the woman said, "It's just like, ten people see a car accident, every single one is gonna tell the police something different" (a vivid way, I thought, of localizing the story about the blind men feeling an elephant). "Tell me which one of 'em gets out to help," the man said, "that's the one whose religion I'll listen to.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.