Quotes About Truth

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

To any kind of sex, if you were honest. I've got a pole, you've got a hole, that's what it all came down to.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than another man - that we know nothing at all except what we have experienced ourselves.

Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.

If one cannot work for the Party any longer one must be able to look the truth in the face and die...

what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

Perhaps it is a very good thing that we cannot wholly rule our minds and that they force on us ideas and images which we would ignobly prefer to dismiss; thus truth makes its way in spite of egotism and unconsciousness.

after all, there is such a thing as truth.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

A Correct Message Is A Correct Attitude.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 2, 2016

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.