Quotes About Truth

Is that the truth, Jimmy? I ask without looking at him. It's the truth and it come to ya! I smile.

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.

the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.

The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth, and it come to ya!" I smile.

Napravila bih pauzu svaki put kada bi me neka ideja pogodila svojom istinitoscu, ili kad bi me neka recenica gusila mirnom ostrinom. Priznajem: pucala sam od smeha, kao sto sam I poskakivala od sramezljivosti.

There are times, believe you me, when to lie would be a sin and to tell the truth would be a disaster.

It's the art of letting people deceive themselves without actually telling them lies.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong

There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.

When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.

the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems.