Quotes About Truth

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

However, we have never met a sincere solipsist and we doubt that any exist.52 This illustrates an important principle that we shall use several times in this chapter: the mere fact that an idea is irrefutable does not imply that there is any reason to believe it is true.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

You pessimists always fall into the disillusion trap," said the cheerful man cheerfully. "From one distance a thing looks bright. From another it looks dark. You think you've found the truth when you've replaced the cheerful view by the opposite, but true profundity blends all possible views, bright as well as dark.

Memoria este un proces de editare care exagereaz? inevitabil unele episoade, le reprim? pe altele È™i aranjeaz? evenimentele într-o ordine mai clar?, dar nimeni nu recunoaÈ™te asta despre propria memorie.

Truth and goodness do not depend on me, Bell. I am too weak. I am as poor a thing as General Blessington. Prepare to despise both of us.

Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.

To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.