Quotes About Truth

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Não posso negar o que vi, o que cheirei, o que senti, o que amei.

Luís Bernardo estava petrificado pela beleza e pelo pavor daquele espetáculo: tivessem-lhe dito que o mundo inteiro já acabar naquele instante, e ele teria acreditado.

A fi cum spui, badica, dar cel ce spune multe stie putine.

Gafita e o fudula si se crede frumusetea lumii, pentru ca barbatu-sau o poarta gatita. Frumoasa i s-a fi parand lui dar nu este.

For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.

The sacred books of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and the Veda are the best repositories of the ideas that mattered most to our ancestors, and to ignore them is an act of childish conceit. But it is equally naive to believe that whatever was written down in the past contains an absolute truth that lasts forever.

If Diogenes with his lantern twenty-three centuries ago had difficulty finding an honest man, today he would have perhaps an even more troublesome time finding a happy one.

But symbols can be deceptive: they have a tendency to distract from the reality they are supposed to represent.

In discarding a literal religious explanation, it becomes easy to discredit the hard-won wisdom often bundled up with it.

the past can never be literally true in memory: it must be continuously edited, and the question is only whether we take creative control of the editing or not.

But it seems clear that an increasing majority are not being helped by traditional religions and belief systems. Many are unable to separate the truth in the old doctrines from the distortions and degradations that time has added, and since they cannot accept error, they reject the truth as well. Others are so desperate for some order that they cling rigidly to whatever belief happens to be at hand—warts and all—and become fundamentalist Christians, or Muslims, or communists.

Scientists often describe the autotelic aspects of their work as the exhilaration that comes from the pursuit of truth and of beauty. What they seem to describe, however, is the joy of discovery, of solving a problem, of being able to express an observed relationship in a simple and elegant form. So what is rewarding is not a mysterious and ineffable goal but the activity of science itself. It is the pursuit that counts, not the attainment.

A woman will always accept such talk, however false she knows it to be. The older and uglier she is the more readily will she do so, because she desires to believe it

el hombre no cambia aun cuando cambien sus hábitos y las palabras de su lengua. Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel...

Hanefitai ir krikš?ionys, žydai ir magai tuš?iai jo ieškojo.Žem?je t?ra dvejopi žmon?s. Protingi, kurie neturi tik?jimo, ir tikintieji, kurie neturi proto

Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel, y las palabras del narrador

Los hombres revolotean alrededor de la mentira como las moscas alrededor de un panal de miel

Remember that only stupidity is punished. Not lechery, nor greed, nor betrayal, nor apostasy, but stupidity alone. And truth is the worst stupidity, for only the feeble-minded thinks he has found truth.

Tuhat kirjaa luettuaan ihminen alkaa aavistaa masentavan totuuden. Kymmenentuhatta kirjaa tekee hänet surulliseksi

After reading on, I realized why she didn't tell the truth. She revealed that she was a postmodernist who didn't even like to use the word 'truth'.

Feminist just can't help but lie because there is no such thing as the truth. That's what they tell us but no one really knows whether it's true.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.