Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"There is no truth. There is only perception"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Sanity is a cozy lie"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"The whole is the false"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see"

Charles Peguy, Philosopher

Charles Peguy

"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"

Louis Kahn, Architect

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

"Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Be that self which one truly is"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"Light is the symbol of truth"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines"

Marc Bloch, Historian

Marc Bloch

"There are no facts, only interpretations"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"Stand a little less between me and the sun"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia"

Democritus, Philosopher

Democritus

"Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"The truth is, of course, is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"If you're treated a certain way, you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real, they're real for you whether they're real or not"

James Baldwin, Educator

James Baldwin

"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

Miguel de Unamuno

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

Werner Heisenberg

"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong"

Saul Kripke, Philosopher

Saul Kripke

"A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on"

James Callaghan, Leader

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