Truth Quotes - Page 74

By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance.

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.