Truth Quotes

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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. — Jonathan Swift
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight. — William Cowper
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves… — R.K. Narayan
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell… — Emmanuelle Beart
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural… — Carl Jung
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand… — Carl Jung
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold… — Sigmund Freud
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?… — Abraham Maslow
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts… — Hans Eysenck
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience… — Jacques Maritain
Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word… — William James
Truth in our ideas means their power to work. — William James
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy… — William James
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense… — Jacques Barzun
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The… — John Stuart Mill
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.Â Authentic philosophizing… — Herbert Marcuse
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common… — Herbert Marcuse

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