Quotes About Truth

What I do not know, I don't think I do.

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.

A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

I think that you or anyone else who claims that there is an absolute idea of each thing would agree in the first place that none of them exists in us. No, for if it did, it would no longer be absolute.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

But can that which does not exist have anything pertaining or belonging to it? Of course not. Then the one has no name, nor is there any description or knowledge or perception or opinion of it....And it is neither named nor described nor thought of nor known, nor does any existing thing perceive it.

O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speaks the truth. For consider what a very commonplace and trivial things this which I have said - a thing which any man might say: that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one and the same.

Since there has been shown to be false speech and false opinion, there may be imitations of real existences, and out of this condition of the mind an art of deception may arise

SOCRATES: Then hear me, Gorgias, for I am quite sure that if there ever was a man who entered on the discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I should say the same of you. GORGIAS: What is coming, Socrates?

Now, if the truth of things is always in our soul, the soul is immortal.

Beauty is the splendour of truth

DoÄŸru olan, yaln?z güçlünün iÅŸine geleni yapmak deÄŸil, tersini de, iÅŸine gelmeyeni yapmakt?r

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light Plato Allegory of the Cave

Ogni problema ha tre soluzioni: la mia soluzione, la tua soluzione, e la soluzione giusta.

Let deeds match words.

Parents often fail to address early childhood lying, since the lying is almost innocent—their child's too young to know what lies are, or that lying's wrong. When their child gets older and learns those distinctions, the parents believe, the lying will stop. This is dead wrong, according to Dr. Talwar.

Truth, sir, is a cow that will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.

In any event, if people want to believe in God, I have no problem with them. But if they want to tell me that God is a kind of truth or knowledge that I am ignorant of, I ask them how I can be more educated. They usually say, First you have to have faith. Then I realize their knowledge is personal and holds nothing for me, or for society. - Greg Graffin

We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. This is an uncomfortable notion which I have gradually come to accept by reading what other survivors have written, including myself, when I re-read my writings after a lapse of years. We, the survivors, are not only a tiny but also an anomalous minority. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.

We the survivors are not the true witnesses. The true witnesses, those in possession of the unspeakable truth are the drowned, the dead, the disappeared.

Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion