Truth Quotes - Page 38

• In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Principles, Natural

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• I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

  Steven Chu

  Dream, Kings, Character

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• The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Ideas, Mind

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• Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Nature, Science

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• By doubting we come at truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Doubt, Truth Of Life

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• Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Mind, Desire

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• Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Waiting, World

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.41

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• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

  Walter Scott

  Rumor, May, Said

  Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii.”

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• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Lying, Roots

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• Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Patriotism, Doe, Matter

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Honesty, Integrity, World

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Honesty, People, Faults

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• Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Honesty, Men, Policy

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

  William James

  Honesty, Integrity, Earnest

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• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Men, Might

  Michel de Montaigne (1915). “The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne”

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• Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Character

  "Exceptional Employee".

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• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Heroic, Embrace, Divine

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• One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Growth, Democracy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.360, Psychology Press

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• Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Appreciation, Real, Character

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

  John Herschel

  Writing, Science, Discovery

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• All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Real, Ideas, Voice

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• Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Every careful measurement in science is always given with the probable error ... every observer admits that he is likely wrong, and knows about how much wrong he is likely to be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Men, Errors

  "The Scientific Outlook".

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• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Science, Reality

  "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.

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