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Truth Quotes by William James
- 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…
- Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
- 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…
- 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…
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to…
- There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
- There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a…
- Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely…
- Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
- We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
- Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as…
- I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
- When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when…
- Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
- Truth is what works.
- The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons
- Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way
- Truth is what works. Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing…
More Truth Quotes
- 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