Truth Quotes - Page 38

• Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

  George Iles

  Science, Errors, Torn

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• ...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.

  Michael Lerner

  Love, God, Faith

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• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  Plato

  Honesty, Plato, Profitable

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• I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

  Poul Anderson

  Motivational, Witty, Knowledge

  Quoted in New Scientist, 25 Sept. 1969

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• No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

  Xenophanes

  Honesty, Done, Chance

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• Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.

  J. H. Plumb

  Eye, Science, History

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• Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

  Plato

  Mean, Science, Air

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• Speak the truth.
  Give whatever you can.
  Never be angry.
  These three steps will lead you
  Into the presence of the gods.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Three, Steps

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• No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

  Anatoli Granovsky

  Dream, Doubt, Sound

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• The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

  Plato

  Numbers, Quality, Apprehension

  Plato (1956). “The Republic”

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• Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

  Robert Breault

  Accepted, Absurd, Seems

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• A respect for authority is the basis for most medical education. Students may become so used to memorising that they become prey to the illusion that the reason for learning to parrot lectures and textbooks is that they are the 'truth'.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Textbooks, May, Lectures

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• When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

  George Iles

  Education, Science, Lateness

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Honesty, Hype, Self

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• The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Teacher, Science, Doe

  "Reasons to De-Test the Schools". The New York Times, October 11, 1988.

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• There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Writing, Creativity

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Tests, Duration, Spirituality

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• I am the only real truth I know.

  Jean Rhys

  Real, Acceptance, Awareness

  Jean Rhys, Isak Dinesen (1978). “Women Fiction 2”

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• Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Moon

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Integrity, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honesty, Character, Men

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Reality, People, All Things

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• Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

  Alfred Nobel

  Spiritual, Veils, Cynicism

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• You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

  Edgar Guest

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Deeds

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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