Quotes About Truth

To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.