Truths Quotes

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

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.

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.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

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.

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.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.