Quotes About Truth

Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: wharever you might say the object is, well it is not.

No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances.

Early ideas are not necessarily true ideas.

The difficulty is not merely that of destroying old ideas that are false; it is not merely that of replacing them with true ideas that are new; it is that of causing people habitually to associate meanings that are new and true with terms associated so long, so universally, so uniformly with meanings that are false.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?

Man's word is God in man.

Believing where we cannot prove.

This is the truth the poet sings,That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.

He said likewiseThat a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.