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Truth Quotes
"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
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"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals."
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"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
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"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
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"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."
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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
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"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
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"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
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"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
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"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
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"The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth."
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"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news."
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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
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"If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?"
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"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
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"Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser."
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"A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth."
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"Expectation and fact are two different things that people usually cannot differentiate."
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"The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate."
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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
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"I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
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"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
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"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
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