Truths Quotes
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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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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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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
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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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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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Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.
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I think myself as a searcher for truths, with new truth for each place I visit.
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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 are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.
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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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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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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 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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One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
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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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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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Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
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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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All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
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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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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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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
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We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.
