Quotes About Truth

Tüm ahlaki niteliklerin içinde en kolay çürümeye uÄŸrayan? ''vicdanl?l?k'' denilen niteliktir. Ä°nsan?n ruh hâline baÄŸl? olarak vicdan?, kimi zaman ona ceza kesebilecek en sert yarg?ç olur. Kimi zamansa rahatl?kla suç ortaklar? s?fat?yla hareket edebilen bu ikilinin aras?ndan su s?zmaz.

But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.

Nada hay en este mundo, Betteredge, que se aparezca como una cosa probable, si no logramos vincularla con nuestra engañosa experiencia, y sólo creemos en lo novelesco cuando se halla estampado en letras de molde.

Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

but he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth

The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm: That is the top of sovereignty.

Not as adventitious therefore will the wise man regard the faith that is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world—knowing that if he can effect the change he aims at—well; if not—well also; though not so well.

The world is not "my idea," as Schopenhauer called it; it is a stern reality of which you and I are passing spawns.

History," [Voltaire] concludes, "is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead";40 we transform the past to suit our wishes for the future, and in the upshot "history proves that anything can be proved by history.

In philosophy all truth is old and only error is original.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."2 Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

It was even a saying among the philosophers themselves that since learned men had appeared, honest men were nowhere to be found.

Bad and good are prejudices which the eternal reality cannot recognize;

It is not merely probable, it is certain that we shall never find a straight line that is not the shortest distance between two points.

If perceptions wove themselves automatically into ordered thought, if mind were not an active effort hammering out order from chaos, how could the same experience leave one man mediocre, and in a more active and tireless soul be raised to the light of wisdom and the beautiful logic of truth?

There are only three things worth while in this world—justice, beauty and truth; and perhaps none of them can be defined.

A bit of wisdom is a joy forever.

Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws . . .

The truest vision ever had of God came, perhaps, here.

that I think many things with the clearest conviction, . . . which I never have the courage to say; but I will never say anything which I do not think.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some