Truth Quotes - Page 69

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.