Quotes About Truth

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.

It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

they play fast and loose with both historical fact and traditional religious interpretation in order to understand their past as they believe it must be understood

We shall either find what we are seeking, or free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

The living need the truth, before rumor pollutes it.

Either we shall find what we are seeking, or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Comprendió cómo es posible idealizar a las personas por conveniencia propia mientras se pisotean sus debilidades humanas como si fueran tierra.

All'inizio andai da Socrate", disse, "per il suo metodo negativo. Mi piaceva vederlo minare alla base la sicurezza degli stolti. Ecco, pensavo, un uomo che non addomestica la verità, ma la segue anche nel deserto. Perciò lo seguii a mia volta; e Socrate mi condusse dove non avevo pensato di andare".

Metà dei guai del mondo sono causati da uomini non allenati a risentirsi per una affermazione fallace come per un insulto.

Nature had no mysteries, only facts not yet correctly observed and analyzed. Proceed from this sound first principle, and one would never miss one's way.

Alexias) 'You burned this and you kept no copy?' (Plato) 'When one offers to the gods, one brings a whole beast to the altar. If it was an image of what is not, then it was false and ought to be destroyed; and if of what is, then a little fire will not destroy it.

Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.' (Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. —Isaac Bashevis Singer

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

Today, I think most smokers experience the same denial as alcoholics regarding the impact of this abuse.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.