Truth Quotes - Page 108

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Whatever you say about something, it is not.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one