Quotes About Truth

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.

nothing to learning for I have none; nothing to youth for I was old when I began; nothing to popularity for I was hated all round.… This is the modest truth and my friends at Rome call me more god than man.

ecclesiam nulla salus

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

The historian who puts his system first can hardly escape the heresy of preferring the facts which suit his system best.

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

One cannot quarrel with religious beliefs, especially of a strange, remote, half-understood culture. But when the beliefs become a delusion maintained against natural evidence to the point of losing the independence of a people, they may fairly be called folly.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

Beauty warms, and Truth illumines.

Just as every man must see for himself, so every man must believe for himself. Acceptation of truth is a purely personal, individual act.

The good, the true, and the beautiful, are three faces of the same ideal of perfection, the Infinite.

In vain is it argued that we are to give up our private judgment to a revelation; we can only admit the authority of the revelation by an act of our individual judgment.

Thus there opens out to man a magnificent prospect of advance in the acquisition of truth, beauty and goodness; for if these are three aspects of the Ideal, three indefinite realities never to be attained in their entirety, because by their nature they are infinite, the progress of man in science, art and virtue is without possible limit.

Belief is the distinguishing of the existent from the nonexistent, it is the predication of reality, and on this reality depends the possibility of reasoning.

Every logical act of the intellect is an assertion that something is.

Human authority may furnish conviction, but never certainty. Divine authority is immutable and infallible.

Every religion is the expression of a want of man's spiritual nature, however uncouth or exaggerated may be the form it assumes. This uncouthness or exaggeration is due to negation of correlative wants. The want itself is the strain after a truth, the hunger of the spiritual nature. The Incarnation assumes to satisfy every one of these wants, and therefore must become a web, of which all philosophies are the warp, and all religions are the woof.

Our convictions are the facts assured to us on the testimony of our own nature, our own senses, or our own reason.

The free creature can alone say of itself "I am." In a word, the free creature is the only one with veritable being.

Curiosity, is a movement of the soul towards Truth, which it seeks to assimilate by Knowledge. It is the first step in the direction of Certainty.

TRUTH, such as it appears to us, can only be relative, because we ourselves, being relative creatures, have only a relative perception and judgment. We appreciate that which is true to ourselves, not that which is universally true. And truth may well assume an aspect to one different from that it assumes to another.