Quotes About Truth

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.