Quotes About Truth

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.

I wish to make it clear that 'history' in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.

Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.

The reality of time and change seemed to me the crux of realism.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

Emotions are always true, but they're not always right.

I have long made friends with the open sky-- Rough are its ways, but true.

What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

It is not allowable in science to make a statement of fact based solely on your own opinion.

Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm Tyler Johnson. I'm looking for my dad. I thought he might be over here." Tyler Johnson was as big as his father but a lot better looking, with his father's dark hair and brown eyes. The way Buck might have looked twenty years ago. "Your father's over there in the corner," Call said. "He's about to go to jail for assaulting Ms. Sinclair.

I believe if something needs to be said, people should say it. Blunt doesn't stab as deep as being cut by a secret.

Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

What are you going to do now?' She faced him. What I've always wanted. I'm leaving this stupid kingdom to make my fortune, like a prince in one of the tales.' They're not true you know,' Cam said quietly. Meg stared at him for a long, grim moment. Yes they are,' she hissed.... Cam spoke in the sudden silence. 'Look, Meg. I'm not saying princes don't have adventures. But I'll bet a lot of them get eaten by the first dragon they com to.