Quotes About Truth

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

Che tu creda di farcela o no, hai comunque ragione.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

There is, I think, no more nutritive or suggestive truth… than that of the perfect dependence of the "moral" sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question comes back thus, obviously, to the kind and the degree of the artist's prime sensibility, which is the soil out of which his subject springs.

The fatal futility of Fact.

Two different people appealing to a search engine with the same question do not necessarily receive the same answers. The concept of truth is being relativized and individualized—losing its universal character.

It has the added advantage of being true.

The scientist thus learns truth experimentally or mathematically; the strategist reasons at least partly by analogy with the past – first establishing which events are comparable and which prior conclusions remain relevant.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.

As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that results from making oneself God. Modern man is the Jew, the heretic, the anti-hero, alienated from God, society and paradoxically himself. He lives in a self-created reality divorced from truth.