Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
We don’t regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
You may not like the way I deliver the truth – you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts – but that’s the way I do business.
Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn’t so easily bent.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
You never monkey with the truth.
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
If you walk on the path of truth all the powers in the universe help you.
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.
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it’s often only found in moments of truth.
People said my records were ‘funky’ and ‘muddy,’ but the truth is they were just demos.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.
