Truth Quotes
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Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
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I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. And besides, I have lived with liars so long that I have lost the tune, & a fact jars upon me like a discord.
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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.
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Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
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...as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction
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I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.
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As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'
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How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
