Quotes About Truth

everyone on earth picks their nose. That's just a fact.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille.

Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce as ny as evere he kanEverich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.

The lesson is clear: neither science nor data are democratic. Science is meritocratic and not all data are equal.

right: profound un-understanding of others persisted throughout Churchill's life. Hindered by that obtusity, he had discovered the extreme vulnerability of his own position, and the harsh reality of politics. The truth was painfully simple: he had too many enemies, too few friends, and almost no popular support.

Men run with great avidity to give their evidence in favour of what flatters their passions and national prejudices,' David Hume told Edward Gibbon.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that's the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn't change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Teach them the shame that tells the lie, "I am unforgivable," when the truth is, "I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control." Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Marie dini bir kitap okumaktad?r. - " Ve aÄŸz?ndan hiç yalan ç?kmad?…Tanr?m! Tanr?m! Bakma bana! Ama ona bir kad?n getirdiler, kocas?n? aldatm??, orta yere diktiler… O dediki seni lanetlemiyorum. Çekil git kar??mdan.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.