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Truth Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is…
- Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.
- Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
- When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
- Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as…
- When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts…
- Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at…
- Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if…
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,…
- A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
- This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
- Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov