Quotes About Truth

What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Major Pugachiov didn't believe Vlasov's officers until he himself reached the Red Army units. Everything Vlasov's men had said was true. The state didn't want him, the state was afraid of him.

wasn't going to try and get the foreman's job, even though it gave you a chance of staying alive, for the worst thing in the camps was forcing another person, a prisoner like yourself, to bow to your will (or anyone else's). What did it matter that I knew that Ivanov was a swine, that Petrov was a spy and Zaslavsky a false witness?

Essere un rivoluzionario significa prima di tutto essere una persona onestà. Di per sé una cosa semplice, eppure così difficile.

Philosophy is the love of truth. Science is the discovery of truth through experiment. Religion is the experience of truth and application of it in daily living.

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.

Religion stabilizes us and reassures us. Revelation destabilizes and disturbs us.

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of my own youth by the war.

I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.