Truth Quotes - Page 87

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

Truth hath a quiet breast.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

What is not in nature can never be true.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.