I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

— Isaac Newton

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out…

— Simone Weil

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it…

— Bertrand Russell

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

— Samuel Johnson

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating…

— Edward St Aubyn

The sum of truth is based on perspective + timing.

— Brian Skynet

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting…

— Barbara Boxer

“In case you haven't noticed, the word has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth based on…

— Nathan Hill

“What’s true? What’s false? In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together…

— Nathan Hill

“When that time come, nobody will care for each other. You don't have to prove me wrong, you'll need that energy.”

— Toba Beta

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

— Ronald Reagan

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

— Teresa Heinz

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest…

— Jack Kerouac