Quotes About Truth

Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair].

Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall].

Ipse dixit [He himself said it].

Cucullus non facit monachum [The cowl does not make a monk].

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

In vino veritas [In wine is truth].

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.

Los posmodernos, al aparentar que iban aún más allá de la teoría situacionista, en verdad la convirtieron en lo contrario de lo que era.

I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.

mas quem dá por um eco na água se ela própria água feita de ecos também, aqueles que dizem sentir a água enganam-se, sentem a memória dela

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'?

That is why the truth is in the hands of unofficial folk.

The chief trouble with the Churches is that they cannot make the truth about this world fit in with their theology.

magna est veritas, et praevalebit.1

It was so completely obvious, and yet what proof was there? It was, Martin thought, like the rabbit which the Hindus see in the moon. It is next to impossible to make people see it; but once they have recognized it, they will never see a face or a man or a woman there again. It is obvious that there is a rabbit in the moon; but obviousness seems too often unsusceptible of proof. The Case of the Seven of Calvary

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.

The only antidote to being duped is a thorough knowledge of and passion for Truth.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.