Quotes About Truth

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The rigid stupidities of forced schooling, its linear logics, its bell curves, its buzzers and tests and multiple humiliations, its resort to magical spells, fills me with rage these days as an old man. Real education can only begin out of a foundation of self-awareness. Know the truth of yourself or you are nothing but a pathetic human resource. Your life will have missed it's point.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.

But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what's perplexing, what's beautiful, what's true.

Truth must be spoken however it be taken.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.

Thomas Slater says that modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and qualify his conclusions that nobody shall be led to ascribe to his numbers a greater accuracy than they merit. It is impossible to read his work, and not feel that he was a man of essentially truthful mind and that science missed an ornament when he was appropriated by the Church.

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

This story is going to take you on a very curvy path, leading you step by step into ideas, theories, worlds and counter worlds that will seem wholly false, and yet… Deep down in the depth of your mind, no matter how crazy and off the wall it all seems on the surface, there will still be a ring of truth in it. Your adventure begins now!

a good story was frequently superior to the truth?

You've seen the razzle-dazzle; here's the bitter reality.

I fear you are a fool, but it is a holy foolishness.

How could she let him go, with all that information in his head? It was spotty, and they had no way of knowing how much of it was true, but it was all they had.

There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

I wonder if the truth comes off people like an aura or an odor. You don't have to know them to know them, ya know?

The difference between a class clown and a class nerd is that the class clown tells jokes everyone gets while the class nerd tells jokes that only he gets. Comedy, thus, is not just truth and pain, but universal, or at least general, truth and pain.

Seeking God's righteousness means searching out and doing those things that God says are right