Truth Quote by Edith Wharton

“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths.”

— Edith Wharton

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases…

— Hermann Hesse

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

“Words have an immense power over people. Words represent ideas and thoughts. No matter what anyone says, we all care, to a certain extent,…

— Alison G. Bailey

“There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And…

— Hermann Hesse

“It is unwise to force others to accept your ideas when you do not understand them yourself.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Everyone had their own theory about everything, and they believed that their truth was the only one that mattered. They spent days, nights, weeks,…

— Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die