Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Truth never was indebted to a lie"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation"

Adam Smith, Economist

Adam Smith

"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

Leo Rosten

"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public, they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"No authority is higher than reality"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Exactitude is not truth"

Henri Matisse, Artist

Henri Matisse

"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"The answer is: there is no answer"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"What we don't understand, we can make mean anything"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality!"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"I don't believe what the papers are saying. They're just out to capture my dime, exaggerating this, exaggerating that"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"Truth is in things, and not in words"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

Otto von Bismarck

"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"The well of true wit is truth itself"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"Caricature is rough truth"

George Meredith, Novelist

George Meredith

"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves"

John McCain, Politician

John McCain

"The truth is, you know, we're all just one step away from being completely nuts"

Al Pacino, Actor

Al Pacino

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are, you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are, and, as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are, it is extraordinarily difficult, really, not to know what you are and yet to be that thing"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

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