Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Science is but an image of the truth"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Today, when we say the West, we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... We make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Opinions are made to be changed, or how is truth to be got at?"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it, but it divides us from truth"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"I confused things with their names: that is belief"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Religion is the opium of the masses"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"History is more or less bunk"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Nothing can be beautiful which is not true"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"If you ever injected truth into politics, you have no politics"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"If you seek truth, you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth, you will become invincible"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it, without complaint, when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables?"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

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