Quotes About Truths

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children. The time for action has come. Not until we purge our species of superstitious thinking can we embrace all that our minds have to offer.

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths... In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond refusing to flip into deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths. This is how the species has evolved. In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

?tiinÈ›a este încercarea de a g?si dovezi fizice pentru ceea ce este necunoscut sau înc? nedefinit, de a respinge superstitiÈ›iile È™i percepÈ›iile greÈ™ite în favoarea adev?rurilor observabile. Când È™tiinÈ›a ofer? un r?spuns, acesta este universal. Iar omenirea nu se r?zboieÈ™te din cauza lui, ci face front comun în jurul lui.

Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence value of any thing is infinite—thus the "mountains in the sun"—and being infinite, equal to every other thing and all truths.

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.

I know certain truths about life.

The ability of the powerful to dismiss inconvenient people (and inconvenient truths) by paying no attention has become the focus of social psychologists, who are finding relationships between power and the people we pay most and least attention to.4

A capacidade que os poderosos têm de ignorar as pessoas inconvenientes (e as verdades inconvenientes) não lhes dando atenção tornou-se o centro das atenções dos psicólogos sociais, que têm encontrado relações entre o poder e as pessoas a quem damos mais e menos atenção.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

Conservatism aims to maintain in working order the loyalties of the community to perceived truths and also to those truths which in their judgment have earned universal recognition.

This isn't from me, but from Faulkner, and may be the best advice I've seen for any writer. (Write of) the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.

In truths dependent on our personal action, then, faith based on desire is certainly a lawful and possibly an indispensable thing.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths

Good sayings are like pearls strung together.

The Geeta is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

In times of change, we need to remind ourselves and others, again and again, of certain basic truths: Our brains and our abilities are like muscles. They can be strengthened with practice.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.