Quotes About Truth

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The facts of a man's life ain't very important, but it seems like they should get said anyways.

I like writing about what I saw and not what I was supposed to see.

The sword of Mohammad, and the Kor'än, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth which the world has yet known.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

At the outset do not be worried about this big question — Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Uno cree saber lo que busca, pero sólo al final, cuando lo encuentra, comprende realmente qué andaba buscando.

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.