Quotes About Truth

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

there were things I thought needed saying and I knew that other people were reluctant to say them

Just one example were the European slaves brought to the coast of North Africa by pirates. These European slaves were more numerous than the African slaves brought to the United States and to the American colonies from which it was formed. But the politicization of history has shrunk the public perception of slavery to whatever is most expedient for promoting politically correct agendas today.

What words openly declare can be tested against empirical evidence, but what words insinuate can bypass that safeguard. Even an innocent-sounding phrase like "income distribution," endlessly repeated, can suggest a process in which income exists somehow and is then distributed, as one might distribute food at a dinner table or gifts at Christmas.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

Mutsuzluk, çaresizlik, hayal k?r?kl??? ve intihar insanl?k halinin ayr?lmaz parças?d?r. Bunlar?n sebebi ne iblisleri olmak ne de ak?l hastas? olmakt?r. Herkesin bildiÄŸi bu gerçeÄŸi iddia etmek ÅŸöyle dursun, ona inanma cesaretine bile herkes sahip deÄŸildir.

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth. I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.

there's no need for algebra where two and two make five.

What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. ... Such a rule ... draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors ... where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

Google this by Thoreau and see if you can find it among the many many posterized quotes. No. We want doctrines and schemes. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

No quiero sentir ya mi vida como si fuera una estadía. La filosofía que así la pinta es falsa. Ya es hora de empezar a vivir.

good deeds can be shortly stated but where wrong is done a wealth of language is needed to veil its deformity.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way – even when these stories concern their own native countries.

Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

Besides, I know the Athenian character from experience: you like to be told pleasant news, but if things do not turn out in the way you have been led to expect, then you blame your informants afterwards. I therefore thought it safer to let you know the truth.

I lived through the whole of it, being of mature years and judgment, and I took great pains to make out the exact truth. For twenty years I was banished from my country after I held the command at Amphipolis, and associating with both sides, with the Peloponnesians quite as much as with the Athenians, because of my exile, I was thus enabled to watch quietly the course of events.

had almost said of mankind.

See that? Paul said. Ten goddamn seconds. I don't get it. You didn't even have to hear the whole song, just a few lines, and you got the chills and that swirly, happy-sad feeling in your gut, didn't you? ... That's the difference between the real stuff and the crap. I know which one you are and you know which one I am.

My instincts have never lies to me.