Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it. But... if it's real, you'll feel it"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"The facts are always less than what really happened"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Truth is a great flirt"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people"

George Galloway, Politician

"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental, as we are accustomed to believe"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force"

Nancy Cartwright, Actress

"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American Revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person, I guess"

Christina Milian, Musician

"The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"Truth is powerful and it prevails"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

"What ever truth drops on it, eventually grinds to a powder"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion"

David Icke, Athlete

"Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually"

Al Stewart, Musician

"Men create the gods in their own image"

Xenophanes, Philosopher

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"I deal in facts"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Truth is immortal; error is mortal"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having"

Denis Johnson, Writer

"The truth is overrated"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well, of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"There can be no literary equivalent to truth"

Laura Riding, Poet

"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Theories pass. The frog remains"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

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