Quotes About Truth

It's simply incorrect to call Dr. King a Republican.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

I was increasingly disappointed in how so many of the members here of the media do their job or, rather, don't do their job: the bias at which they come from it at.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight

Mais celui qui parle le langage de la raison est celui qui aime le moins. Gauvain savait déjà cette vérité-là (52).

There are two great gifts, or faculties, by which men attain to truth: faith and reason.

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.

remember: not all that is fiction is fictional, and not all that is true is transparent.

It is the journalist's responsibility to be objective. When you start printing only one side of a story, when you start limiting people's access to facts, telling them by your presentation and emphasis what to believe, what is truth, then you are not doing your job.

I flung off in a passion, telling him that I would soon show him that I spoke truth. The bystanders openly declared against him, holding him for a lout, as indeed he was, and me for a man, as I had proved myself.

Sananlaskussa sanotaan, että vahingosta viisastuu, mutta se ei pidä paikkaansa, sillä kaikki, mitä tapahtuu, uusiintuu seuraavalla kerralla aivan eri lailla eikä ollenkaan, niin kuin sitä kuvittelee.

Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quella verità, tra quella verità e l'intelligenza del creato avrebbe optato per la prima.

Mentre la donna parlava, descriveva l'estate della pace, una smorfia dolorosa si disegnò e fermò sulla faccia di Milton. Senza Fulvia non sarebbe estate per lui, sarebbe stato l'unico al mondo a sentir freddo in quella piena estate. Se però Fulvia era ad aspettarlo sulla riva di quell'oceano burrascoso attraversato a nuoto… Doveva assolutamente sapere, doveva assolutamente, domani, rompere quel salvadanaio ed estrarne una moneta per l'acquisto del libro della verità.

Ma capite questo, che io non diventerò mai un uomo anziano come voi, se ora dicessi di sì, e questa sarebbe una maniera di dir sì, quando da uomo giovane ho giurato di dir no fino in fondo?

Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.

Photography helps people to see.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.