Quotes About Truth

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.

Some secrets are wrong and ought to be told.

The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.

For four years I have been wearing blinders. I thought all this time I walked a path of cobblestones, and it turns out to have been an avenue of stars! For four years, my head has been caught in a box. Its sides were painted with pleasant enough scenes, but that I should have thought this was the world!

Truth is irrelavant to the treading out of brain paths.

Truth is irrelevant to the treading out of brain paths.

truth is entirely irrelevant to the treading out of brain path

Word magic. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Primates arouse a certain nervousness because they show us ourselves in a brutally honest light, reminding us,.....that we are mere 'naked apes.

entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.

Lo que nos dicen las personas de sus sentimientos a menudo es incompleto, a veces manifiestamente falso, y siempre viene modificado para consumo público.

But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth."17

when the cost of believing a false pattern is real is less than the cost of believing the genuine pattern, natural selection will favor the false pattern.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.

As a man, I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.

Let us be honest, the colonist knows perfectly well that no jargon is a substitute for reality.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.