Quotes About Truth

L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir! (And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)

Je vu quelques fois, ce que l'homme à cru voir

I shall ask forgiveness for having fed on lies. - Farewell

Cui s? m? vând?C?rei jivine s? m? închin?Ce icoan? sfânt? s? sf?râm?Ce inimi s? frâng?Ce minciuni s? spun? În sângele cui s? calc?

Acum,m? bucur de un frumos avantaj,acela c? pot s?-mi bat joc de vechile iubiri mincionase ÅŸi s? fac de ruÅŸine cuplurile acelea întemeiate pe minciun?--am v?zut iadul femeilor!încât îmi va fi îng?duit s? posed adev?rul într-un suflet ÅŸi într-un trup.

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.

La realtà di una notte, e anzi neppure quella di un'intera vita umana, non significano, al tempo stesso, anche la loro più profonda verità ». « E nessun sogno » disse egli con un leggero sospiro « è interamente un sogno ».

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearerÂ's mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

All I would claim is that those who in the search for truth start from consciousness as a seat of self-knowledge with interests and responsibilities not confined to the material plane, are just as much facing the hard facts of experience as those who start from consciousness as a device for reading the indications of spectroscopes and micrometers.

Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than in the brain of a hard-working scientist.

Relativity physics is especially interested in invariants, and it has discovered and named a few more. It is a common mistake to suppose that Einstein's theory of relativity asserts that everything is relative. Actually, it says: 'There are absolute things in the world but you must look deeply for them. The things that first present themselves to your notice are for the most part relative'.

Each of us is armed with this touchstone of actuality; by applying it we decide that this sorry world of ours is actual and Utopia is a dream. As our individual consciousnesses are different, so our touchstones are different; but fortunately they all agree in their indication of actuality - or at any rate those which agree are in sufficient majority to shut the others up in lunatic asylums.

The call to abandon illusions is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions.

He died in 1952, and his last words were, "The Scriptures explain themselves.