Truth Quotes
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Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).
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All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.
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History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.
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At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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The truth is, no one is like Columbo.
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What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.
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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
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The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
