Quotes About Truth

That's what you do. You find the best angle. You crop. You edit. That's not cheating. That's love.

We open a book, we turn a newspaper page, we allow the television and the radio to come into our homes. All the things we are told every day - are the true?

Why don't you read a novel? There's more truth in fiction than in fact.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

How many things were articles of faith to us yesterday that are fables to us today?

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

Platon, Devlet'inde ak?lca ve ruhça zay?f olanlara tart??may? yasak etmiÅŸtir. DoÄŸru dürüst ad?m at?p yürümesini bilmeyen bir insanla gerçeÄŸi aramaya ç?kman?n anlam? var m??

La persecución y la caza corren propiamente de nuestra cuenta; no tenemos excusa si las efectuamos mal y fuera de propósito. Fallar en la captura es otra cosa. Porque hemos nacido para buscar la verdad; poseerla corresponde a una potencia mayor. [...] El mundo es sólo una escuela de indagación. Lo importante no es quien llegará a la meta, sino quién efectuará las más bellas carreras.

Tabiatta ÅŸöyle bir kar??ma da görülür: Ressamlardan öÄŸreniyoruz ki aÄŸlarken ve gülerken yüzümüzde beliren çizgiler ve hareketler ayn?ym??. Gerçekten, resim henüz bitmeden bakacak olursan?z çehre aÄŸlayacak m?, gülecek mi bilemezsiniz. Daha garibi var: Gülme son haddine var?nca gözyaÅŸlar?yla kar???r.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

The uncritical civilization bears witness to its own decline in accepting myths as fact while dismissing facts as myth.

The possession of the truth is the highest goal of the human mind.

Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.

The question, is it true? can be asked of anything we read. It is applicable to every kind of writing, in one or another sense of truth -- mathematical, scientific, philosophical, historial and poetical. No higher commendation can be given any work of the human mind than to praise it for the measure of truth it has achieved; by the same token, to criticize it adversely for its failure in this respect is to treat it with the seriousness that a serious work deserves.

Informar-se é simplesmente saber que algo é um fato. Esclarecer-se é saber, além de que algo é um fato, do que se trata esse fato: por que ele é assim, quais as conexões que possui com outros fatos, em quais aspectos são iguais, em quais aspectos são diferentes etc.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?

Read biography as history and as the cause of history; take all autobiographies with a grain of salt; and never forget that you must not argue with a book until you fully understand what it is saying.

Knowledge, if you please, consists in those opinions that can be defended, opinions for which there is evidence of one kind or another. If we really know something, in this sense, we must believe that we can convince others of what we know. Opinion, in the sense in which we have been employing the word, is unsupported judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

If communications were not complex, structural outlining would be unnecessary. If language were a perfect medium instead of a relatively opaque one, there would be no need for interpretation. If error and ignorance did not circumscribe truth and knowledge, we should not have to be critical.

always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appears consistent-- you're able to exclude that aspect of reality, but it will always be lying in wait for you, ready to take its revenge.

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.