Quotes About Truth

All those stories I've told you are as delicate as butterflies.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul

We go about in a world where secret influences are continually at work for us or against us, and we do not suspect their existence, because we have no imagination. For it needs imagination to perceive the truth—that is why the greatest poets are always the greatest teachers.

When one has thoroughly got imbued into one's head the leading truth that nothing happens without a cause, one grows not only large-minded, but large-hearted.

God is not mocked!

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of the truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Vind je me niet mooi?' 'Heel mooi. Mooi zoals mensen mooi zijn die niet lang meer te leven hebben.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth:

For if not true, they are well imagined...

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a 'meaning' as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life's meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.

He was only aware of the conflict that was slowly destroying his integrity—the conflict between truth, and concealment of truth.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Civilization and Religion are incompatible" and "Faith is believing what you know isn't true.

However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.

You know why Wainwright and his kind fear me, don't you?.. They fear that we know the truth about the origins of their faiths. How long, they wonder, have we been observing humanity? Have we watched Mohammad begin the hegira, or Moses giving the Jews their law? Do we know all the false in their stories they believe?

harsh verdict of the great philosopher Lucretius: all religions were fundamentally immoral, because the superstitions they peddled wrought more evil than good.

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?

Oh, I can think of many reasons. Perhaps it's a signal, so that any strange ship entering our universe will know where to look for life. Perhaps it marks the centre of galactic administration. Or perhaps—and somehow I feel that this is the real explanation—it's simply the greatest of all works of art. But it's foolish to speculate now. In a few hours we shall know the truth.