Truth Is Quotes - Page 19
Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.
Christmas Humphreys (2003). “Teach Yourself Zen”, Teach Yourself
Song: Trouble in Mind
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 605), 1895.
"Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 43), 1986.
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell (1840). “Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science”, p.25
Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.23, City Lights Books
Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.131, Ultramarine Publishing
Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Five Ways to Forgiveness”, p.123, Library of America
Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.
Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.118, Psychology Press