Quotes About Truth

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

It is like confessing to a murder.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

To the extent that we can shine a light on the bad things being done, that's going to have a positive impact.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

So much wrong could religion induce.

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

There is no new knowledge, it already exists in the universe.

Any truth creates a scandal.

The spirit knows what lies in the heart.