Quotes about truth
truth men use
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. John Stuart Blackie
truth truth-is whole
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. John Sterling
truth patents scales
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
truth begging-you hypocrisy
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. Martin Luther
truth lying integrity
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
truth heart may
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. Mortimer Adler
truth simple men
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. Philip Sidney
truth eternity type
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
truth mean method
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. Edward Tufte
truth strict regard
I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. Edward Burnett Tylor
truth lying rage
It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth. Edward de Bono
truth writing reality
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. Edward Albee
truth play facts
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
truth reality two
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two. Edith Hamilton
truth
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
truth taught truth-is
The truth is lived, not taught.... Hermann Hesse
truth faces millions
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
truth opposites ifs
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.
truth conflict
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True. Henry Van Dyke
truth lying moving
The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
truth found dare
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
truth often-is wonder
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Henri Poincare
truth men giving
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.
truth giving something-new
Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.
truth geometry
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
truth knowledge science
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
truth lying revolution
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. Henrik Ibsen
truth freedom enemy
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
truth exactitude
Exactitude is not truth. [Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.] Henri Matisse
truth memories men
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves. James Russell Lowell
truth taste tongue
Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
truth men waste
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
truth believe reality
There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth. James Rebhorn