Truths Quotes

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Music tells no truths.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.