Quotes About Truth

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

LOGIC The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: I cant so you musnt, and I can but you musnt.

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

Maybe your self-mythology is no different than any other mythology. It's a story that changes in the telling, evolving over time. Whatever resonates will stay, and what doesn't will fall away. To pick away at the literal truth is to miss the point of it, miss the joy of it. So go ahead and build your myth. Try to tell a good story about yourself that captures something true, whether or not the facts agree.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.