Truth Quotes

When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be simpler, on the supposition that this is the more likely to lead in the direction of truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor-entia non multiplicana praeter necessitatem.

James Jeans

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Origen

Truth here makes Falsehood torment lying tongues.

Leonardo da Vinci

I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.

Dick Van Dyke

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Sorin Cerin

You're both so screwed up alone that together you're like the perfect mess.

J. Sterling

The idea of revelation is the idea of special knowledge of God, or of religious truth, possessed by some people and transmitted by them to others. In some form or other the idea is reasonable. In all other matters people differ in their degree of skill or insight. Why not in religion?

Charles Hartshorne

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

The truth brings no man a fortune.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

David Levithan

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

Abu Bakr

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

John Wycliffe

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

John Stuart Mill

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Lionel Suggs

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

Vinoba Bhave

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.

Alan Moore

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Michelle Sagara West

don't talk, I will listen don't talk, you keep your distance I'd rather hear some truth tonight than entertain your lies

Natalie Merchant

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot.

Toba Beta

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum