Objective Truth Quotes

• The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Objectivity, Deceit

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  107 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Interesting, Realizing

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.4, Routledge

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Produce, Certain

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Political, Would Be, Matter

  56 Copy quote

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  A. N. Wilson

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "I'm Mr Evil". Interview with Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2003.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Imagine, Enlightened

  Twitter post from Dec 27, 2014

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Support

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

  Richard Dawkins

  World, Materials, Objectives

  7 Copy quote

• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Skills, Humanity, Opening Your Mind

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...words are the gateway to reality, the means by which we engage with the objective truth beyond ourselves.

  Joseph Pearce

  Mean, Reality, Truth Is

  Joseph Pearce (2012). “Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit”, p.27, TAN Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Civilization, Tools, Economy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Creating, Upset, Democracy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

  Peter Kreeft

  Clever, Believe, Light

  5 Copy quote

• Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

  George Orwell

  Running, Past, Class

  50 Copy quote

• If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Games, Toys

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist”, p.59, Ignatius Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

  Chris Prentiss

  Powerful, Imagination, Needs

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.42, BookBaby

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Two, Religion, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Satire, Objectives

  Wyndham Lewis (1950). “Rude Assignment: A Narrative of My Career Up-to-date”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Age, Needs, Earth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Self, Brain, Desire

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

  178 Copy quote

• It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Atheism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

  George Orwell

  Class, Succeed, Force

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

  170 Copy quote

  Show source

• I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I also do things like write "he talked about ..." instead of writing direct quotes. But generally I feel like since my stories are very obviously meant to be my perception of an event rather than the objective truth this gives me a lot of leeway.

  Marie Calloway

  Memories, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

  Alan Sokal

  Jobs, Believe, World

  Alan Sokal (2010). “Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture”, p.141, OUP Oxford

  8 Copy quote

  Show source