Quotes About Truth

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

History is the devil's scripture.

Rumors are the children of truth.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.