Quotes About Truth

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

I thought working in other universes that had a lot of history - and I had personal affection for, like 'Sherlock Holmes' or the 'X-Men' movies - would prepare me for it. But the truth is, there is nothing and has never been anything like 'Star Wars.'

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Even a writer like me, who, in 'The Firebird,' is telling the story of people who've been dead for nearly three centuries, needs to take care. Those people may not be around any longer to tell me what actually happened, but neither are they able to defend themselves against unjust portrayals.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.