Quotes About Truth

truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in a two-party political system, it does not work for science, because science is not about opinion. It is about evidence.

For the past 150 years, industrial civilization has been dining on the energy stored in fossil fuels, and the bill has come due. Yet, we have sat around the dinner table denying that it is our bill, and doubting the credibility of the man who delivered it.

C. P. Snow once argued that foolish faith in authority is the enemy of truth.

Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did.

What are the relative risks of ignoring scientific claims that turn out to be true versus acting on claims that turn out to be false?194 The risks of not flossing are real, but not inordinate. The risks of not acting on the scientific evidence of climate change are inordinate.

Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than giving accurate weight to both sides.

How are we to evaluate the truth claims of science when we know that these claims may in the future be overturned? Elsewhere I have called this problem the instability of scientific truth.16 In the 1980s, philosopher Larry Laudan called it the pessimistic meta-induction of the history of science.17 He observed (as have many others) that the history of science offers many examples of scientific "truths" that were later viewed as misconceptions

Forging peace between people always outweighed the truth.

Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

There are several ways of looking at this. You could say that mankind is getting smarter, removing itself from superstition and irrationality. Or you could say that human society is denying a basic truth that human beings have verified from the dawn of time, and that in removing themselves from the idea of a Supreme Being, man is moving away from all that is spiritual and moral in the world, all that is spiritual and moral in himself.

It's better to know the truth and suffer the consequences than live in the lie.

Honesty set you free,

History is a myth men want to believe.

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

History is a series of lies on which we agree.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Qu'est ce que l'histoire, sinon une fable sur laquelle tout le monde est d'accord.