Quotes About Truth

A biologia diz-nos que descendemos de criaturas de carne e osso, mas, no fundo, sabemos bem que somos filhos e filhas de fantasmas de papel e tinta.

Was andere als unsere Errungenschaften betrachten, ist oft nicht das, was wir selbst so sehen.

Erinnerungen und Scheinerinnerungen. Ich glaube, mich genau an etwas zu erinnern. Eine Notiz auf dem Nachsatzpapier eines Buches, das ich durch Zufall aufschlage, beweist, dass ich mich irre. Die Sache ist irgendwo anders passiert, mit jemand anderem, zu einer anderen Zeit.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me—no good.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks." And

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The truth does not cease to exist because it's ignored.

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE

They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at least can be, ought to be) the same as Revelation, that Reality shines out of every appearance, that the One is totally, infinitely present in all particulars.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.