Quotes About Truth

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?

Ever since we discovered that the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

When we do science, we want to describe the world in the most objective way possible. We try to eliminate distortions and optical illusions deriving from our point of view. Science aspires to objectivity, to a shared point of view about which it is possible to be in agreement.

There is no ultimate or mysterious essence to understand that is the true essence of our being.

external perception is an internal dream which proves to be in harmony with external things; and instead of calling 'hallucination' a false perception, we must call external perception 'a confirmed hallucination.

The present is like the flatness of Earth: an illusion. We

This means not giving credence to those who say they are in possession of the truth. For this reason, science and religion frequently find themselves on a collision course. Not because science pretends to know ultimate answers, but precisely for the opposite reason: because the scientific spirit distrusts whoever claims to be the one having ultimate answers or privileged access to Truth.

man is what we all know.

Por un lado se tiene la certeza de conocer la verdad. Por otro está el reconocimiento de nuestra ignorancia y la duda perpetua de toda certeza. La religión, especialmente el monoteísmo, encuentra una profunda dificultad de aceptar el pensamiento del cambio, el pensamiento crítico. Eva recogió la manzana para llegar a saber. Pero ante el dios que quiere ser el Dios Único e indiscutible fue el primero de los pecados.

You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.

We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom.

This is also what critical reading of our histories makes possible: we cannot repair what we cannot reconcile; we cannot truly know what we will not truly see.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

Memory is the most potent truth. Show me history untouched by memories and you show me lies.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

People have always said, "Life sucks, and then you die," but Wesley never wanted to believe that. He wanted to believe that life was what you made it. He wanted to believe that anything was possible. But reality was a bitch that he was only beginning to understand.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

With mindful attention, you realize that thoughts are just thoughts - mental processes in the mind - rather than the truth.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

I came to New York for a reason. I've been with you all my life, almost to a fault. I wanted to come here and take on the pressures of playing in New York. So one thing I would tell my fans: If you haven't heard it from me, then it ain't true.

How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.

You want the truth, Master Skilley? Then find out just what manner of cat you really are... and brazenly, unabashedly, boldly, be that cat.

La verdad es que eran como pájaros envejecidos y oscuros, con las pechugas palpitantes de haber volado mucho en un trozo de cielo muy pequeño.