Quotes About Truth

I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.

I perpetuate rumors that I've dated people that I've never actually dated.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

Le journalisme doit remplir deux fonctions : organiser l'espace public mais aussi produire des révélations. Révéler d'abord au sens de tendre un miroir à la société, pour qu'elle prenne conscience de ce qu'elle est véritablement.

I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.

On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or small, affords room for a certain number of inferences, beyond which we fall into absurdity.

For me, the response is simple. All ideas are false, that is to say contradictory and irrational, if one takes them in an exclusive and absolute sense, or if one allows oneself to be carried away by that sense; all are true, susceptible to realization and use, if one takes them together with others, or in evolution.

Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.