Quotes About Truth

Il faut pas se mentir : la seule chose qui oblige un mauvais garçon à se lever tôt, c'est le désir de fuir.

Precision is not reality.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

Reality always falls short of essence. Every child knows that.

Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: "Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away." And he went back to sleep. Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: "Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!" And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. "So it goes," he thought.

The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast about it, and probably not even to be aware of it.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

[G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science is facts.

If you would be pure, saturate yourself with the Word of God.

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

A belief is not true because it is useful.

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

It is truth alone--scientific, established, proved, and rational truth--which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

The minority is always right.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.