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Quotes About Truth

Astrology is a disease, not a science.
~ Maimonides
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
~ Maimonides
This is self-evident.
~ Maimonides
When I have a difficult subject before me — when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools — I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.
~ Maimonides
pero estoy harta de no ser quien no soy, y no puedo ser yo si aparento que soy otra.
~ Unknown
O greseala te duce spre alta, o minciuna urmeaza alteia si astfel adevarul nu mai poate iesi la lumina.
~ Unknown
De ce nu ai spus adev?rul, Mircea? Numai adev?rul nu era de-ajuns? Ai scris pentru bani? Da, pentru asta ai facut-o - acesta este specificul Occidentului, unde c?r?ile se vând pentru voluptate, nu pentru dragoste.
~ Unknown
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
~ Unknown
Reality is just a nice way of saying "tragedy." The truth is, people are vain and mean!
~ Unknown
He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
~ Mal Peet
Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.
~ Mal Peet
Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.
~ Mal Peet
La masonería no era un sistema metafísico. No era un dogma. No era la revelación mística definitiva de una verdad única e inmutable. Era una forma de vida mediante la cual el individuo adquiría los instrumentos simbólicos indispensables para alcanzar de manera permanente una mayor perfección en la localización e identificación de la inteligencia suprema, presente tras la fachada del cosmos.
~ Unknown
I may be crazy , but that doesn't mean I'm wrong . I'm mad but not ill .
~ Malaclypse the Younger
The Initiate must be totally naked, to demonstrate that he is truly a human being and not something else in disguise like a cabbage or something.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
~ Unknown
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
~ Unknown
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
~ Unknown
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
~ Unknown
It is fascinating to see how politicians can become convinced of a material fact when it is actually only supposition.
~ Unknown
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
~ Unknown
Journalism equals intellectual male prostitution of speech and writing
~ Malcolm Lowry
Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge