Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface"

Edward Hopper, Artist

Edward Hopper

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent"

Stendhal, Writer

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"A hair divides what is false and true"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"I realize that nothing's as it seems"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"I am not a myth"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"Truth made you a traitor, as it often does in a time of scoundrels"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash"

Louis Aragon, Poet

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

George Berkeley

"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"An idea is a putting truth in checkmate"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"I might show facts as plain as day: but since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away"

Christina Rossetti, Poet

Christina Rossetti

"When I was young, my father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty, and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

Frederick Sanger

"I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

Gustav Stresemann

"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service"

Joan Didion, Author

"Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret"

Diane Ackerman, Poet

"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

James Anthony Froude

"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"I will tell the truth wherever I please"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

Bob Woodward

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

Harold Pinter

"A mask of gold hides all deformities"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

Thomas Dekker

"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule"

Jefferson Davis, President

Jefferson Davis

"If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"You who speak languages, you are such liars"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I've always been suspicious of collective truths"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

Joan of Arc

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

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