Truth Quotes

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

~ Anne Lamott

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

~ John Yarmuth

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

~ Albert Einstein

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

~ Albert Schweitzer

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

~ Bob Schieffer

The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

~ David Ogden Stiers

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

~ Richard Roeper

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

~ Nikola Tesla

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

~ Gerald R. Ford

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again.

~ Ravi Zacharias

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

~ Tom Bodett

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

~ Tom Hanks

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

~ Liu Xiaobo

There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.

~ Sarah Doudney

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

~ Nikola Tesla

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

~ Jean Giraudoux

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

~ Antoine Lavoisier

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

~ Ramana Maharshi

The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

~ Rachael Taylor

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

~ Auguste Rodin

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

~ Adolf Loos

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

~ Kenneth L. Pike

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

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

~ Ada Lovelace

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

~ Linus Pauling

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

~ Chuck Berry

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.

~ Publilius Syrus

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

~ Émile Zola

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

~ Imre Lakatos

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

~ James D. Watson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

~ E. O. Wilson

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

~ Kenneth R. Miller

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

~ P. T. Barnum