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Quotes About Truths

For many people, this would be the point where one might do some soul-searching introspection, some painful confronting of truths as a means of personal growth. Being a scientist, I decided to avoid this by Studying the Subject. Donning my lab coat and postponing a microscope nearby ,I started making phone calls.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.
~ Samuel Hahnemann
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
~ Freeman Dyson
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
~ Oscar Wilde
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto. (p123) Architecture of Happiness
~ Alain de Botton
Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.
~ Alain de Botton
There is no necessary connection between the concepts of home and of prettiness; what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistently available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding on to.
~ Alain de Botton
Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barrister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time, but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
~ Alan Lightman
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time....Where the two times meet, desperation. Where the two times go their separate ways, contentment. For, miraculously, a barrister, a nurse, a baker can make a world in either time, but not in both times. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
~ Alan Lightman
La existencia de Dios debe tenerse en mi espíritu por tan cierta como las verdades de las matemáticas que no contemplan otra cosa que números y figuras.
~ Descartes Rene Descartes
Parents seem to embrace, almost unquestioningly, this bizarre, superstitious belief in infant clairvoyance, as though their "innocent" offspring have access to deep truths lost to them, to the parents—lost to maturity, cynicism, compromise. It's one of our most esteemed cultural archetypes: the Prescient Child.
~ Donald Antrim
Schooling, education and knowledge are not the same thing. One is not a natural result of the other. People grow in knowledge when they learn truths. Teaching and schooling are meaningless when students do not seek wisdom. They are likewise meaningless when that which is taught is not wisdom. In order to learn, people must thirst for knowledge. Force and compulsion cannot accomplish this.
~ Jeremy Locke
purpose is for us to become so convinced of these truths that we appropriate them in our daily circumstances, that we learn to trust God in the midst of our pain, whatever form it may take. It does not matter whether our pain is trivial or traumatic, temporary or interminable. Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them.
~ Jerry Bridges
In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. • God is infinite in wisdom. • God is perfect in love.
~ Jerry Bridges
The primary purpose is for us to become so convinced of these truths that we appropriate them in our daily circumstances, that we learn to trust God in the midst of our pain, whatever form it may take.
~ Jerry Bridges
This is a book about America's demons. Many of those demons are imaginary, but all of them have truths to tell us. A conspiracy story that catches on becomes a form of folklore. It says something true about the anxieties and experiences of the people who believe and repeat it, even if it says nothing true about the objects of the theory itself.
~ Jesse Walker
There are three truths I have come to learn in the year since the Dragon War. The first is that both humans and dragons have the capacity to be good or evil. The second is that even if you're doing something you love, you can still become bored with your work. And the third is that my business partner, Marta, will never be finished with her wedding gown. Either one of them.
~ Jessica Day George
He has given me his gift of silence, knowing that at least I am free to construe my own truths about his feelings. It's generous.
~ Andrew X. Pham
Nothing. I've had a bit to drink and I'm philosophizing. I'm looking for general truths. And I've found one: lesser evils exist, but we can't choose them. Only True Evil can force us to such a choice. Whether we like it or not.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Thus the robot is incapable of knowing that it was constructed according to the mechanisms M. Since we are aware-or at least can be made aware-that the robot was so constructed, this seems to tell us that we have access to mathematical truths, e.g. Omega (Q(M)), that are beyond the robot's capabilities, despite the fact that the robot's abilities are supposed to be equal of (or in excess of) human capabilities.
~ Roger Penrose
The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards the world of ideas, there to participate in the divine version of reproduction, which is the understanding and the passing on of eternal truths.
~ Roger Scruton
Socratic, they call it in college. All kinds of back and forth, designed to elicit truths implicitly known by all rational beings.
~ Lee Child