Quotes About Truth

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Nature is usually wrong.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.