Truth Quotes - Page 28

• When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Safe, Knows

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.42, Routledge

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mistake, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• There are no facts, only interpretations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Encouraging, Witty, Humorous

  Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

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• The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Profound, Obscure

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?

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• In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Generations, Fool, Speak

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• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

  George Berkeley

  Science, Games, Cry

  'Siris' (1744) para. 368

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  Samuel Butler

  Pearls, Rich, Divine

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Valuable, Equator

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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  Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Success, Being Yourself

  "Find Out Who You Are and Live That Truth". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Politics, Way

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• . . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

  Frank Herbert

  Light, Knowing, Darkness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Powerful, Fiction, World

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• Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Light, Lines, Affair

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

  Robert Kennedy

  Life, Children, Greatness

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Comfort, Safe

  "All Said and Done". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1972.

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• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Writing, Prussia

  "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Growing Up, Knowledge

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Thinking, Expression

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• Chase after the truth like all hell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Catching Fire, Catching Up

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

  Jean Rostand

  Fighting, Mind, Ifs

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  World

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• Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Lying, Mouths

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 12, l. 838

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• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Remarks

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Science, Atheism

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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