Quotes About Truth

A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that's the only place the girl exists.

All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers...only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.

I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

My old Greek, who was my teacher when I was a boy in my own country," I said, "taught me this. It was a Somali saying, I believe: 'Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

he had been so right, and she hated him for it.

The idea that the world was flat was never put forth by a seafaring man. It was a tale told to landsmen, or to merchants who might be inclined to compete for markets, for in those days the source of raw material was closely guarded.

Sakim had taught me to be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.

Sure as you tell somethin' to one person, they will tell somebody else, an' warn them not to tell. Of course, they do.

if he claimed there was a rock in a road at a certain point in a story, his readers knew that if they went to that spot they would find the rock

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for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.

When you know that you know persecution comes easy.

If behaving as thought we had free will or God exists gets us results we want, we will not only come to believe those things; they will be, pragmatically, true.

Every thing is what it is" is a famous phrase in British philosophy, and the essence of the empirical view.44*

knowledge is cut off from the activity in which it has its meaning, and becomes a false abstraction.

the true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Some libraries have separate areas for fiction and nonfiction. Mrs. Surlaw didn't believe in that sort of thing. After all, who was she to decide what was true and what wasn't?

There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

19 Miss Zarves There is no Miss Zarves. There is no nineteenth story. Sorry.

On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.

She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.