Quotes About Truth

It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.

you said " you were insane", while all you did was being sane..!!

To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.

for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable.

Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.

É de facto verdade que o conhecimento é mais cego do que a inocência

Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am not jesting. This is no jest, but life and death

I must not deceive myself; it was no dream; but all a grim reality.

And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.

Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

Aunque la comprensión no puede alterar los hechos, ayuda a hacerlos más soportables.

Sólo cuando el hombre se enfrenta cara a cara con estos terrores es cuando puede entender su verdadera importancia.

Faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

La creíamos muerta cuando dormía, y dormida cuando murió.

Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

la fe de esta manera: Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

Quería decir que debemos tener un espíritu abierto, y no permitir que una pequeña verdad obstruya el curso de las grandes verdades, como una pequeña roca obstruye el paso del tren.

Ah, o defeito da nossa ciência é que ela quer explicar tudo, e se não consegue explicar, então diz que não há nada a explicar. Ainda assim, vemos ao nosso redor todos os dias o crescimento de novas convicções, que pensam que são novas, e que não são nada mais que coisas antigas que fingem ser novas, como as belas damas na ópera.

He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.

For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

Una vez escuché a un norteamericano que definía la fe de esta manera: "Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.

es posible que el amor sea totalmente objetivo, o totalmente subjetivo?

Al principio, aprendemos la verdad ínfima, la apreciamos en su justo valor, pero no debemos creer que esta es toda la verdad del universo