Richard Feynman Quotes
You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
Quotes to Explore
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Tell the truth.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
