Truths Quotes

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

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.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.