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Quotes About Truth

It certainly was cold, was his thought. That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how cold it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time! That showed one must not be too sure of things. There was no mistake about it, it was cold.
~ Jack London
There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet
~ Jack London
The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
~ Jack London
C'è un proverbio che afferma che la verità viene sempre a galla. Sono arrivata a dubitare di tale proverbio. Sono trascorsi diciannove anni e nonostante tutti i nostri incessanti sforzi, non siamo riusciti a trovare l'uomo che realmente lanciò la bomba.
~ Jack London
Childish and immaterial as the topic was, the quality of their reasoning was still more childish and immaterial. In truth, there was very little reasoning or none at all. Their method was one of assertion, assumption, and denunciation
~ Jack London
mas o branco fala verdade de formas diferentes. Hoje fala verdade, amanhã fala verdade de outra maneira e não há como compreendê-lo nem se entende o seu modo de ser.
~ Jack London
Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.
~ Jack London
mais do que um grão de verdade no erro contido na definição infantil de memória: memória é a coisa com a qual a gente esquece. Ser capaz de esquecer significa sanidade. Lembrar incessantemente significa
~ Jack London
Các sá»± v?t không ph?i bao gi? cÅ©ng Ä'úng như v? b? ngoài.
~ Jack London
Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.
~ Jack London
The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real.
~ Jack London
Parables don't lie, but liars will parable."—Lip-King.
~ Jack London
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.
~ Jack McDevitt
there is no security in ignorance.
~ Jack Stack
Lord Daldace looked about as if seeing the villa for the first time. "What are dreams? Ordinary experience is a dream. The eyes, the ears, the nose: they present pictures on the brain, and these pictures are called 'reality'. At night, when we dream, other pictures, of source unknown, are impinged. Sometimes the dream-images are more real than 'reality'. Which is solid, which illusion? Why trouble to make the distinction?
~ Jack Vance
Observe! I hold the magic tablet of truth! You are Monster; I am Man. Each is alone; each sees dawn and dusk; each feels pain and pain's ease. Why should one be victor and the other victim? We will never agree; never shall you know gain by the toil of man! Submit to the what-must-be! If you fail to heed, then you must taste a bitter brew and never again walk the sands of dark Sigil.
~ Jack Vance
If the truth was important enough for one generation of powerful officials to go to great lengths to hide it, then it should be important for us to search for it now.
~ Jack Weatherford
Religious clerics, political ideologues, and government bureaucrats do not have the right to change history. The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there—somewhere. If we do not continue the work, the truth remains hidden. If we stop the search, then the censor has defeated us.
~ Jack Weatherford
The truth may be hard to find, but it is out there—somewhere.
~ Jack Weatherford
Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated. The human hand might erase the words, mutilate the manuscript, or chisel off a name, but that only alters memory. Such vandalism tampers with the evidence without altering the facts. Cutting part of a document still leaves an outline of what was removed, a silhouette of the missing piece.
~ Jack Weatherford
leadership, very simply, is about two things:          1.   Truth and trust.          2.   Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter.
~ Jack Welch
The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.
~ Jack Welch
We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.
~ Jacob Bronowski
In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.
~ Jacob Bronowski