Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

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"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Freedom and order are not incompatible... Truth is strength... Free discussion is the very life of truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

Lily Tomlin

"The best mind-altering drug is the truth"

Lily Tomlin, Actress

Lily Tomlin

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Niels Bohr

"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"You sin in thinking bad about people - but often you guess right"

Giulio Andreotti, Politician

Giulio Andreotti

"Humanity, you never had it to begin with"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Truth is exact correspondence with reality"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

Paramahansa Yogananda

"I am not a madman or a nut"

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Scientist

Abdul Qadeer Khan

"No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know!"

Robert Plant, Musician

Robert Plant

"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"I'm interested in the real world"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit can well direct him where to look for it"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth"

Agnes Repplier, Writer

Agnes Repplier

"The strong do what they have to do, and the weak accept what they have to accept"

Thucydides, Historian

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

George Henry Lewes

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth"

Richard Whately, Writer

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter"

Max Planck, Scientist

Max Planck

"Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it"

Claude Adrien Helvetius, Philosopher

"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it"

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philosopher

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