Quotes About Truth

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

There is no such thing as pure relativism. Anything is seen from the eye of the viewer, from one of many angles or frames of reference. The fact that truth may be relative should not lead to the judgment that all values are on the same scale.

Perhaps it is in speaking of our falseness that we can be true.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

My personal mindblower was "Desolation Row," but the song that cut the deepest was "Like a Rolling Stone." The song was about discovering what was actually going on around you, realizing that life isn't all that you've been told it is.

from a contradiction you may deduce everything

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

As the blood poured from his tattered heart into the open air and his brain suffocated, all those incomplete thoughts of Wittgenstein decayed with the dying neurons. Neural connections in the gray matter storing memories and ideas in their ordered configurations fired across the gaps, last gaps of mental life. Thoughts on Truth and Will were erased as flesh sloshed soft and limp against alabaster, no more than rotting human fruit.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Ganoon naman yata talaga minsan, hindi natin masumpungan ang mga sagot dahil mali ang mga tanong natin. O nasusumpungan natin ang tamang sagot kahit mali minsan ang itinatanong natin.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you."

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

Lies and partial truths complicate life."

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to life.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

We have not yet proven that they can. But if we do, it will be because we faced the truth unflinchingly. We will have to shun the shakedown artists and guiltmongers. Whites will have to turn their backs on cowardly, dishonest behavior designed solely to escape charges of "racism." They must reject wholesale, off-the-shelf accusations and search for explanations that go deeper than the sloganeering, grandstanding, and buffoonery that now control the field.

Let's be honest about the fact that many of us from all races are racist. . . . We've lied about progress."132

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