Quotes About Truth

Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstoßen und es klingt hohl, ist das allemal im Buch?

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out.

The good news is that, as Leibniz suggested, we appear to live in the best of all possible worlds, where the computable functions make life predictable enough to be survivable, while the noncomputable functions make life (and mathematical truth) unpredictable enough to remain interesting, no matter how far computers continue to advance.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

1. Churches seem restrictive and overprotective. Self-expression has become one of the foundations of our postmodern culture. There is less concern about truth than about freedom to express feelings, ideas, and experiences. The demand for expressive liberty has certainly threaded its way into the realm of spirituality, as well—which poses a problem for many churches, since many young adults say their experience of church feels stifling, fear-based, and risk-averse.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.