Quotes About Truth

Sensory-motor intelligence aims at success and not at truth; it finds its satisfaction in the achievement of the practical aim pursued, and not in recognition (classification) or explanation. It is an intelligence only lived and not thought. (PDI, p. 238; cf. OI, p. 240)

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life. Thus, the biggest threat to false piety is the honest, sincere human heart.

At the heart of false piety is the need to uphold a spiritual image over the need to live an authentic spiritual life

Tell a lie often enough, someone will believe it." "It's worse than that, Kirsten. Tell a lie often enough, and it stands a good chance of becoming the truth.

One who is false to her first oath will be false to her second.

Further, there is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the "real" from the "unreal" aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this "way" is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbours.

As if one was mistaken in believing that love protects life. As if it were a lie that love is a blessing.

Reality bites... and doesn't let go.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

It will do no good to argue if you're in the wrong, & if you're right--you don't need to.

If you must argue, the best way to win is to start by being right.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

Truth fears no questions.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.