Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

"It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured"

Joseph Glanvill, Writer

"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world"

Daniel Mainwaring, Novelist

"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"Although I had arrived in total darkness, the light of truth at once burst upon my mind, and I perceived most clearly that the Republicans had overreached themselves"

Francis Bond Head, Statesman

"Show me a man who claims he is objective, and I'll show you a man with illusions"

Henry R. Luce, Editor

"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that"

Suzanne Vega, Musician

"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth"

Charles Ives, Composer

"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth"

Anna Jameson, Writer

"We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth"

Lucretia Mott, Activist

"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality"

Thomas Griffith, Editor

"The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects"

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Lawyer

"The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction, but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?"

Katharine Anthony, Writer

"I think paranormal experiences are very personal, again, if they are that. Yes, sometimes I've felt that some things I would personally believe enough for me to take action on it... like, you know, I felt something happen in a hotel once that made me never stay there again"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing"

Ben Okri, Poet

"I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant"

Kenneth Starr, Lawyer

"Politics is organized hatred, that is unity"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"See, that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is"

Geraldine Ferraro, Politician

"I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... They can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government"

Gary Coleman, Actor

"Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... The one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it"

Parmedides, Philosopher

"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"The truth will only be told over a career"

Richard Linklater, Director

"One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully, truth can ultimately be achieved"

Bill Nelson, Politician

"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true"

Ralph Cudworth, Theologian

"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter"

Kenneth Starr, Lawyer

"They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks"

Jamie Redknapp, Athlete

"History can never be covered up"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure"

Kingman Brewster, Jr., Educator

"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth"

Janet Frame, Novelist

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