Truth Quotes - Page 33

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.