Quotes About Truth

But that wasn't true. The only thing that happened between the time that Bud felt irritated and angry and the time that he didn't was something that Bud did — his own self-betrayal — not something that Nancy did. So Bud's feelings were lying to him!

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

To free a man from error is to give, not take away

Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.

She told me, Everybody doesn't get everything. It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it seems like the obvious and essential work of growing up. Everybody doesn't everything: as natural and unavoidable as mortality.

But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny flicker of peace.

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

When I was young. When I had no idea that all over the city, all over the world, there were people walking around sealed in their own universes of loss, independent solar systems of suffering closed off from the regular world, where things make sense and language is all you need to tell the truth.

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17)

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas