Quotes About Truth

Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

yo creo en lo que veo escrito. Hablando se dicen un monton de mentiras. Pero cuando uno las escribe es verdad.

There is among us a tendency to consider true, good and fine everything that appears under the agreeable cloak of revolt against the accepted "truths", especially if supported by people who are, or call themselves, anarchists. This shows a deficiency of that spirit of investigation and criticism that should be maximally developed in anarchists.

I only believe those things which can be proved; but I know full well that proofs are relative and can, and are in fact, continually superseded and cancelled out by other proved facts; and therefore I believe that doubt should be the mental approach of all who aspire to get ever closer to the truth, or at least to that much of truth that it is possible to establish. . .

La libertà è il solo mezzo per arrivare, mediante l'esperienza, al vero e al meglio: e non vi è libertà se non vi è la libertà dell'errore.

The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally.

Whether an honest performer wishes to convey the truth or whether a dishonest performer wishes to convey a falsehood, both must take care to enliven their performances with appropriate expressions, exclude from their performances expressions that might discredit the impression being fostered, and take care lest the audience impute unintended meanings.

police officers have absolute immunity when they testify as witnesses, even when they commit perjury and even when their perjured testimony results in the conviction of an innocent person.

The Court said that since she was a "reliable" witness, the identification was admissible.16

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Like so many works that have had a great impact on human thinking, it makes points that, once they are grasped, have a ring of almost self-evident truth; yet they are still blindly ignored by a disconcertingly large proportion of people who should know better.

Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…

A mathematical truth is timeless, it does not come into being when we discover it.

Uma verdade matemática é intemporal, não ganha existência quando a descobrimos. Contudo, sua descoberta é um evento bem real, pode ser uma emoção, como um grande presente de uma fada.

Philippians 4. "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable-if anything is excellent or praise worthy-think about such things.

Be faithful to what you see, Washington, and not to what you are supposed to see.

Chip recons that he is charming as hell, and who am I to poke holes in his theory. That means that sometimes lies leave his mouth dressed like truth. He just can't help it.

The first rule of science, Captain, is to doubt appearances and to seek substances in their stead.

I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men." Even as I spoke these words, I could hear what a false picture they painted, and also how they were painfully true.

Our bodies know truths our minds neglect." He

What is the truth of any life, Titch? I doubt even the man who lives it can say. xxx You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering. No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it.