Truth Quotes - Page 33

• In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Principles, Natural

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• By doubting we come at truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Doubt, Truth Of Life

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• I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

  Walter Scott

  Rumor, May, Said

  Sir Walter Scott, “The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii.”

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• Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

  William James

  Honesty, Integrity, Earnest

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• Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable- disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verification-so, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Honesty, May

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Confused, Fall, Passion

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

  Betty White

  Funny Inspirational, Communication, Soul

  Betty White (1988). “Betty White in person”, Thorndike Pr

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• He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

  George Berkeley

  Lying, Men, May

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362

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• There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Lying, Character, People

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• I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Forgotten, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 20, 2009

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• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beauty, Atmosphere, Spirit

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Mean, Science, Past

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• I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the content of their character." In the scientific world, people are judged by the content of their ideas. Advances are made with new insights, but the final arbitrator of any point of view are experiments that seek the unbiased truth, not information cherry picked to support a particular point of view.

  Steven Chu

  Dream, Kings, Character

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• The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

  Paul Halmos

  Learning, Math, Joy

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• 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.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Nature, Science

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• Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Mind, Desire

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• Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Lying, Roots

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• Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.

  M. R. DeHaan

  Father, Confusion, Confusing

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• Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Honesty, Integrity, World

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• Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Honesty, People, Faults

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• There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Honesty, Men, Doe

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• Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

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• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately

  Honesty, Men, Policy

  'Apophthegms' p. 219

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• It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, Respect, People

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