Quotes About Truth

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Your mind is your only judge of truth--and if others dissent your verdict, reality is the final court of appeal. John Galt

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act...

the Council of Schools has said that there are no mysteries.

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists' game

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology—we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. He

No es lo que no sabes lo que te mete en problemas. Es lo que sabes con certeza pero que no es verdad.»

In the past, Hem did not like it when someone challenged his beliefs. He resisted changing his mind, and felt offended when anyone suggested that what he was thinking or saying might not be true.

El temor que se acumula en la mente es mucho peor que la situación que existe en realidad.

Your ego can make you arrogant on the Peak, and fearful in the Valley. It keeps you from seeing what is real. Your ego distorts the truth.

Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.

Public meetings, business meetings, encounters on the street, conversations, even posters on the wall all get wrapped up in an official language that doesn't contain a single word of truth. People in the West can't possibly understand what it is really like to lose the right to say what you think for years on end, and the way you have to repress the tiniest illegal thought you might have and stay silent as the tomb. That sort of pressure breaks something inside people.

Naš zadatak odgovara prije svega jednoj historijskoj zada?i. Nijedna tema nije tabu za histori?are kao što ni zamke ni presije svake vrste - politi?ke, ideološke, li?ne - ne smije sprije?iti da se slijedi put saznavanja, ekshumacije i interpretacije ?injenica, naro?ito ako su bile dovoljno sakrivane u tajni arhiva i savjesti. ....To je moralna obaveza odavanja po?asti mrtvima, naro?ito kada su nevine i anonimne žrtve Moloha koji ima apsolutnu vlast...

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

We will declare frankly that nothing is clear in this world. Only fools and charlatans know and understand everything. —ANTON CHEKHOV

We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We too have been known to prefer plot to truth; to deny the evidence before us in favor of the ideas behind us; to do insane things in the name of reason; to take that satisfying step from the righteous to the self-righteous; to drown our private guilt in a public well; to indulge in a little delusion.

John Willard

History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury. — HILARY MANTEL

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the free lunch - that turn out not to exist. We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are.