Quotes About Truth

As far as our propositions are certain, they do not say anything about reality, and as far as they do say anything about reality, they are not certain Albert Einstein (as cited in Schumpeter, 1991)

love of truth and insight which lent wings to the spirit of the Renaissance has grown cold

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The youth is poisoned by systematic lies.

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but not simpler.

A realidade é apenas uma ilusão, apesar de ser uma ilusão bastante persistente.

Un om ar trebui s? caute ceea ce este, nu ceea ce crede c? ar trebui sa fie.

We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe... Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

if the facts don't fit the theory change the facts

What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.

Religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The doctrines of the Bible are often clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. A perfectly pure faith, free from all extraneous admixtures, a system of noble theism and lofty morality, would find too little preparation for it in the common mind and heart.

Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them anything, you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they will know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellow-men.

the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be the mother of truth, but it can also give birth to illegitimate children.

Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomo?u koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.