Quotes About Truth

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Falsehood has a perennial spring.

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Scotland Yard isn't called in nearly as often as detective novelists seem to think

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over .

Zu den Sachen selbst!

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.

EDNA BUCHANAN

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.