Quotes About Truth

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

If the answer is simple, God is speaking.