Truth - Quotes
I guess I`m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don`t say I don`t like people at all but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
I don`t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap, and much more difficult to find...
Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them. His name was Charles Darwin.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!
All of us lie in some way. It is a precondition for society to function, that we lie a little bit. You can view it as a form of consideration. The truth is, in a way, very self-centred.