Truth Quotes - Page 18

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Seek truth from facts.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.