Truths Quotes
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I began to be quite outrageous, and told him all I conceived of him; uttering several bold truths, not in the least to the advantage of his character.
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Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural.
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
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Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
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There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
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The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.
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The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
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The teaching begins by calling upon us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasikāra, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration they deserve.
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.
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In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
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All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
