Quotes About Truth

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown (as in metaphysics), or of the inexactly known (as in ethics or political philosophy); it is the front trench in the siege of truth.

I considered that my nature and disposition had, as it were, a kind of kinship and connection with truth.

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

Now began the great game of epistemology

bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Truth generally lies in the coördination of antagonistic opinions.

I know that I am not right about everything, and yet I am simultaneously convinced that I am. I believe these two things completely, and yet they are in catastrophic logical opposition to each other.

The gift of story is wisdom

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

People don't read their Bibles. They hire pastors to preach to them. And some pastors will preach total nonsense if it will tickle the congregations' ears enough to open their purses... And they'll defend the delusions... indoctrinated in them to the death.

We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.

Information is supposed to inform. That means it has to be reliable, relevant, current, and so on. There was a time when people believed that, given the right information, we

But we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world where gossip passes for news, and sensationalism passes for journalism. - Christina McCall

Practicing law is not about winning. It's about justice. Simple, naked justice. It's about finding the truth. - Judge Sarah L. Hart

Kincaid, there's a reason why stereotypes become stereotypes. It's because they're true. - Harold Sacks

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. - Auguries of Innocence

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.