Quotes About Truth

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Nowhere are emissions monitored constantly. So the truth is that the real quantity of dioxin emissions from incineration remains unknown.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

I never smile unless I mean it.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.