Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality, if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing"

Annabella Sciorra, Actress

"Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever"

Andrew Cohen, Writer

"Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"Ideas, any one can mould as he wishes"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best"

David Chalmers, Philosopher

"Either it works or it doesn't"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity"

Alain Badiou, Philosopher

"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself"

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer

"The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people"

Robert W. Service, Poet

"We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth"

Robert Baldwin Ross, Celebrity

"What appears in newspapers is often new, but seldom true"

Patrick Kavanagh, Poet

"Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife"

Johannes Kepler, Scientist

"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"Our society is not perfect, and this will come as no surprise to many of you"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society, it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"The search for the truth, for truth's sake, is the mark of the historian"

B. H. Liddell Hart, Historian

"Stone is better, its dead life weightier than the words of philosophers who for a while deceived us, then left us bereft"

Mak Dizdar, Poet

"Our people can be trusted with the truth"

Lynden Oscar Pindling, Statesman

"As long as the truth is not recognized and accepted, it is not possible to move on"

Jasmila Žbanić, Director

"People are not made better by praise; they are made better by truth, effort, and conscience"

Abai Qunanbaiuly, Poet

"If you can tell the truth, then you can get free"

Natasha Lyonne, Actress

"The truth is always the best defense, no matter what the situation"

Robert Kardashian, Lawyer

"Healing wounds and claiming truth is the crux of the matter for everybody, whether they realize it or not"

Patricia Sun, Author

"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality"

Bryan Singer, Director

"People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny"

Mary Stewart, Novelist

"Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself"

Gustave Meyrink, Writer

"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't"

Julian Barnes, Writer

"There is no such thing as a harmless truth"

Gregory Nunn, Athlete

"While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth"

Judd Rose, Journalist

"It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are"

Rene Auberjonois, Actor

"Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story, but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience"

Eileen Davidson, Actress

"I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them"

John White Geary, Lawyer

"In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite"

Nelson Eddy, Musician

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