Quotes about truth
truth said ifs
Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said. Ralph Waldo Emerson
truth men perception
No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
truth men individuality
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
truth choices mind
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
truth drug mind
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. Lily Tomlin
truth memories confused
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears? Laurie Halse Anderson
truth-is mechanism
Truth is an all-freeing mechanism. L. Ron Hubbard
truth hatred firsts
The first reaction to truth is hatred. Tertullian
truth hatred enemy
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
truth believe people
Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY. Terry Pratchett
truth heart men
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
truth book bad-day
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
truth-is ideology humans
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. Terry Eagleton
truth-is deconstruction illusory
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
truth adversity survival
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. Terry Goodkind
truth lying character
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
truth truth-is injured
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
truth opinion awake
We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
truth moving roots
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
truth lying dust
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
truth men decision
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
truth men hints
I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth, which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us. If I seek it in him, I shall not find it.
truth thinking design
The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
truth philosophy tests
Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
truth men charity
For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.
truth past sacred
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false. I unsettle all things. No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
truth forever answers
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
truth truth-is summit
Truth is the summit of being.
truth men gentleman
The gentleman is a man of truth.
truth truth-is evidence
All necessary truth is its own evidence.
truth eye understanding
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
truth honesty lying
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
truth honesty men
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.