Truth Quotes - Page 119

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe.

No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Truthfulness is godliness.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a certain "grittieness" and is filled with imperfections, and yet their is an undeniable truth, that what you see really exits, even it if is posed by hand, 24 times a second. This truth is what I find most attractive about stop-motion animation.

The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.