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Truth is the summit of being.
Sep 10, 2025
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.
It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
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.