Quotes About Truth

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

Der unnatürliche Zustand, daß der Mensch nicht an eine von ihm selber erkannte Wahrheit glaubt, dauert an und wirkt sich aus. Die Stadt der Wahrheit kann nicht auf dem Sumpfboden des Skeptizismus erbaut werden.

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes and the hard earth where I'm lying Has a reality so real even my back feels it. I don't need reason — I have shoulderblades.

Olá, guardador de rebanhos, Aí à beira da estrada, Que te diz o vento que passa?' 'Que é vento, e que passa, E que já passou antes, E que passará depois. E a ti o que te diz?' 'Muita coisa mais do que isso, Fala-me de muitas outras coisas. De memórias e de saudades E de coisas que nunca foram.' 'Nunca ouviste passar o vento. O vento só fala do vento. O que lhe ouviste foi mentira, E a mentira está em ti.

And he feels hurt when he hears about wars, And commerce, and the ships leaving Their smoke on the high seas. Because he knows all of this lacks the truth A flower has in its blooming And which moves with the sunlight Changing the hills and valleys

Y los líderes dicen en las pantallas que no es cierto, y que la vida siempre ha sido igual —igual de buena—allá, en la parte mejor del mejor mundo posible

El pasado, creo, es mucho más difícil de ocultar que el presente.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?

Mr. Codro's destiny is Ptolemaic; in other words, based on fiction. Ptolemaic says it all; it means above all fixed and unchanging, that is to say different from real life which is by nature changing and temporary. It means: not according to natural truth, but according to man's desire and the pretense inspired by his fear of dying and his desire for permanence.

Un Dios que necesita de la violencia de los hombres para demostrar su fuerza no puede ser nunca el verdadero Dios

Wine, dear boy, and truth.

The Masks Of Love I come in from a walk With you And they ask me If it is raining. I didn't notice But I'll have to give them The right answer Or they'll think I'm crazy.

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.

Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks.

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.