Quotes About Truths

#1. There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.

Alexander Theroux

#2. Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

#3. If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

Clifford Geertz

#4. I still considered the world's religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble.

Sam Harris

#5. Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#6. First love is stripping down everything to essential truths, setting aside your fears and doubts and seeing who you are in someone else's eyes. In first love you first find yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#7. Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths

Muhammad Ali

#9. Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman

#10. Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

Patti Callahan Henry

#11. A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Ada Lovelace

#12. He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and

R.C. Sproul

#13. I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.

Bill Loguidice

#14. The fact is that a true human privilege is based upon the anatomical privilege only in virtue of the total situation. Psychoanalysis can establish its truths only in the historical context.

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

Deb Caletti

#16. Some illusions ... are the shadows of great truths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#17. Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. But crushing truths perish from being acknowledged.

Albert Camus

#19. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

Howard Mumford Jones

#20. Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Clive Bell

#21. A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

Mary Baker Eddy

#22. Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#23. Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

William Watson

#24. Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

Alexander MacLaren

#25. Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merrill Markoe

#26. Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people

Dennis Prager

#27. The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Leslie Cockburn

#29. The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles ... of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#30. As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.

Marianne Williamson

#31. I wholeheartedly believe in the power and truths of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#32. You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

Ajahn Chah

#33. The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#34. I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.

Helen Oyeyemi

#35. I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find

W.B.Yeats

#36. Straight Americans need an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

Bruce Bawer

#37. God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Heinrich Heine

#38. It appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#39. She was determined to sever the connection between her brain and her mouth before any unpleasant truths could escape. After all, she didn't need a brain to flirt, did she?

Anna Bradley

#40. True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

#41. What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

Giles Andreae

#42. We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

#43. Growing up on the fringe, you came to accept hard truths. Nothing was fair. the world was cold, unforgiving, and people died. it was just the way things were.

Julie Kagawa

#44. Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Moses Mendelssohn

#45. The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God. Paul

David Jeremiah

#46. An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#47. Pianos should never go out of tune. The true sin is something different than what we've been taught; the true sin is living so far removed from absolute harmony. That is more powerful than the truths and lies we tell every day. I

Paulo Coelho

#48. The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

John Carroll

#49. Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Raheel Farooq

#50. Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Nelson Goodman

#51. When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Baron D'Holbach

#52. The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident ... ', the US will be rather pissed off

Eric Idle

#53. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Miguel De Cervantes

#54. I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is practiced, science today lives up to its potential for benefiting humanity.

Philip Kitcher

#55. The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

Ned Vizzini

#56. To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

Joseph Goebbels

#57. By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and the perfection of its truths - Humanity could be rather messy in comparison.

Brenda Maddox

#58. Nor is mathematics about a Platonic reality of eternal truths. It is a creation of the human body and senses, growing out of the activities of moving along a path and of collecting, constructing, and measuring objects.

Steven Pinker

#59. I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!

Drew Barrymore

#60. Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#61. Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

Dianna Hardy

#62. I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Galileo Galilei

#63. Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Morris Kline

#64. Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.

Henry Selick

#65. There is no denial in the dreamtime, only subconscious and spiritual truths.

Pamela Cummins

#66. It's why a kid army makes sense. Adults don't waste their time on magical thinking. They dwell on the same inconvenient truths that

Rick Yancey

#67. There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

Gottfried Leibniz

#68. Claritypoint: Choose to trust these two critical truths that are the opposites of the two core fears: 1) Your value is infinite and absolute because life is a classroom. 2) Every experience is your perfect classroom journey.

Kimberly Giles

#69. It is my theory that the greater truths underlying life and death can be best be understood as a parable--that is, as a fiction.

Genevieve Cogman

#70. As far as Nicholas was concerned, half-truths only added up to a whole lie. Glancing

Alexandra Bracken

#71. Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Elizabeth Bowen

#72. It is a time of change,' Sazed said. 'Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Brandon Sanderson

#73. One lie can tarnish a thousand truths.

Al David

#74. The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard

Ben Folds

#75. Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Denis Diderot

#76. The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.

Chris Christie

#77. For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

Catherine Brady

#78. The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#79. Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Stefan Kanfer

#80. The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance go away and become open/free.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#81. Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

Jack Kornfield

#82. If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#83. Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

Amy Poehler

#84. All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#85. A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

Kathryn Kuhlman

#86. There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

Charles Caleb Colton

#87. A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Herb Caen

#88. The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

Steven Pinker

#89. Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

Barack Obama

#90. The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Paul Feyerabend

#91. To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

#92. The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#93. Happy days are not good for learning something; they are good for loosing ourselves, good for escaping from the truths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Freeman Dyson

#95. When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.

Audre Lorde

#96. In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Pierre Trudeau

#97. What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

Adyashanti

#98. Nothing is more vulnerable and ephemeral than scientific theories, which are mere tools and not everlasting truths.

C. G. Jung

#99. Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

Richard Bach

#100. What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

Okey Ndibe