Quotes About Truth

It's weird to hear this again - to hear how I was perceived by people before they got to know me. Some of the girls thought I was a bitch - aloof, distant - but now they see the truth.

Firstly, it meant that the issue between competing paradigms could not be resolved by simply appealing to 'the data' or 'the facts', for what a scientist counts as data, or facts, will depend on which paradigm she accepts. Perfectly objective choice between two paradigms is therefore impossible: there is no neutral vantage-point from which to assess the claims of each. Secondly, the very idea of objective truth is called into question.

Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.