Quotes About Truth

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

And I have listened also, in my youth, And more than once or twice, To the trained speech, the excellent advice, The clear, dramatic statement of the sum, And, after it was dumb, Heard, like a spook, the curious echo come, The echo of unkempt and drawling mirth --The lounging mirth of cracker-barrel men, Snowed in by winter, spitting at the fire, And telling the disreputable truth With the sad eye that marks the perfect liar-- And, by that laughter, was set free again.

He shall not come to conquest, The conquest of kings, But in the bare stable He shall judge all things.

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.

God is not the author of confusion, everything that he says is the sure word, it is constant.

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Vivir es relacionarse, gozar y padecer, desear, aborrecer y amar. La lectura es vida artificial y prestada, el usufructo, mediante una función cerebral, de las ideas y sensaciones ajenas, la adquisición de los tesoros de la verdad humana por compra o por estafa, no por el trabajo. No

Verdad es; por eso se dijo que uno piensa el bayo y otro el que lo ensilla

Esto se acabó. Es cuanto por ahora podemos decir de las personas que parecen buenas y no lo son.

Verdaderamente —decía él—, ¿por qué no ha de ser una cosa más real que la otra?¿Por qué no ha de ser sueño lo del día y vida efectiva lo de la noche? Es cuestión de nombres y de que diéramos en llamar dormir a lo que llamamos despertar, y acostarse al levantarse...

Entonces no había periódicos, y las ideas políticas, así como las noticias, circulaban de viva voz, desfigurándose entonces más que ahora, porque siempre fue la palabra más mentirosa que la imprenta.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.

el mundo es un gran código que debemos descifrar. No me cabe duda de que hay hombres que nacen con el don de ver la esencia de las cosas y que tienen un conocimiento secreto de la verdadera naturaleza de la materia y sus posibilidades.

Sabéis su definición de un embajador? «Un caballero honrado enviado al extranjero a mentir

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

The moral principle 'it is a duty to tell the truth' would, if taken unconditionally and singly, make all society impossible.

Es un gran paso, un paso irreparable, cuando desvelamos de golpe ante un tercero los repliegues ocultos de una relación íntima; la luz que penetra en el santuario constata y culmina las destrucciones que la oscuridad escondía entre sus sombras: del mismo modo que los cuerpos encerrados en sus tumbas conservan a menudo su forma original hasta que el aire exterior los golpea y los reduce a polvo.