Truth Quotes - Page 107

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society — your home — tells you is important.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

The truth is, that what women have to do is not work for less money. They have to walk away.