Quotes about truth
truth dangerous-world power-of-love
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. William Sloane Coffin
truth heroic embrace
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. William Lloyd Garrison
truth justice retreat
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
truth integrity character
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
truth earth crushed
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. William C. Bryant
truth war thinking
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. William Butler Yeats
truth men knows
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
truth solitude care
How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
truth lying men
Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
truth wall men
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
truth lying ideas
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
truth men self
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.
truth afterlife laughing
I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.
truth rumor may
I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. Walter Scott
truth boys age
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
truth errors progress
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself. William Kingdon Clifford
truth errors suffering
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis. Yevgeny Zamyatin
truth essence numbers
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
truth obviousness peer-pressure
Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire
truth
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. William S. Burroughs
truth-is hearted faint-hearted
The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted. Vincent D'Onofrio
truth favourite misers
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! William Wordsworth
truth century accounts
Truth takes no account of centuries.
truth mean reality
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality. William James
truth guides sensible
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
truth ideas differences
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?
truth real thinking
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
truth law names
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
truth-is
Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience
truth reality order
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
truth views owing
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
truth truth-is categories
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
truth believe ideas
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives