Quotes about Truth

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea