“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
“...moral and religious education, and especially the education a child receives at home, where parents are allowed - even expected - to… — Nicholas Humphrey Copy Share Image
No one has the right to judge us because no one really knows what we have been through. They may have heard… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry. You’re lost. The best of us are, but you will find your way. The universe is everything, all that is… — Maria La Serra Copy Share Image
“When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end… — Kandi Dougherty Copy Share Image
When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, trust is something born only out of necessity. A curtain we draw to hide the ugly truth in order to convince… — K.B. Ezzell Copy Share Image
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I understand that sometimes the truth of God’s Word can become a divider, an irritation, a stone of stumbling. But that’s only… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“History is a narrative enterprise, and the telling of stories that are true, that affirm and explain our existence, is the fundamental… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Is that true," I asked, "that song?" "It is a metaphor," said Mrs. Davis, "it has metaphorical truth." "And the end of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man… — Maurice Bucaille Copy Share Image
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas… — Dale E Turner Copy Share Image
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology,… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth.… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
“I am in doubt as to the propriety of making my first meditations in the place above mentioned matter of discourse; for… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Union with God is not something we acquire by a technique but the grounding truth of our lives that engenders the very… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Amid the green peace, amid the rightness of nature, the violence of a lie stands out. It is so utterly wrong, a… — Erazim V. Kohák Copy Share Image
“The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image