Quotes About Truth

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The best of humanity is philosophy.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.