Quotes About Truth

I've been &amp am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp I'm quite ordinary, &amp will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact — which is so constantly being enacted under the eyes of philosophers...

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.

Birth, and copulation, and death.That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

For a true name holds true power.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

Things that are covered don't heal well.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

Just because majority do something doesn't validate it to be the best thing to do

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

A lot of what we "know" about other nations' approach to health care is simply myth.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

None is absolutely true.

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.