Books Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

— Jeffrey Fry

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with…

— Kenny Smith

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

— David Blaine

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after…

— Kevin Keck

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which…

— Lucy Grealy

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Long ago certain truths were discovered... And must always reappear.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what…

— William Saroyan

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson