Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love, in their universal energy"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"Some stories are true that never happened"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

Elie Wiesel

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems?"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

Douglas William Jerrold

"We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance"

Orville Wright, Inventor

Orville Wright

"The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

Deng Xiaoping

"Seek truth from facts"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

Deng Xiaoping

"You blows who you is"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

Louis Armstrong

"There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The world is governed by opinion"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another"

John Burroughs, Author

"The universe is not fair, and it is never going to be fair"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

Andrew Carnegie

"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Truth disappears with the telling of it"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear, rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

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