truth

"s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter . Today my own students would dismiss with…"

"A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true."

"Let us banish for ever from our minds, my countrymen, all such unworthy ideas of the king, his ministry, and parliament. Let us not suppose that all are become luxurious, effeminate, and unreasonable,…"

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so."

"Where once there was an understanding that a reality independent of the human observer exists; students are now taught that truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position—or lack…"

"In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary."

"Ustad Bismillah Khan’s specialization lies in his ability to produce intricate sound patterns on the Shehnai, which was hitherto, considered impossible on this instrument."

"hilosophy is not a matter for adjustment, as a means, to national requirements, but every nation and individual that cultivates philosophy should aim at having a true philosophy."

"The old joke about the two main Soviet papers, Pravda and Izvestia , was “There’s no news in the Truth and no truth in the News!"

"The unerring signs of truth and falsehood are clear, distinct consistency and contradiction. This is also the case with revelation, in so far as that it must, in common with other truths, be free from…"

"It has absolutely been romanticized; it shows up in literature and art. I think there is a sort of magic to it that draws people and yet I think the reality of it is that it's an extraordinarily compl…"

"I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic."

"An honest God is the noblest work of man."

"It is true that Judges, as the upholders of the Constitution and the laws, are least likely to err but the possibility of their acting contrary to the Constitution cannot be completely excluded."

"The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to arrive at a multiplicity of relationships. And, no doubt, homosexuality is not a for…"

"I just want to keep working and being enthusiastic and having dreams and working hard to make those dreams come true, anything else is boredom."

"Paternalism is a desperate gamble that lying politicians will honestly care for those who fall under their power."

"People who think they can control their negative emotions and manifest them when they want to, simply deceive themselves. Negative emotions depend on identification; if identification is destroyed in …"

"It cannot seriously be denied that as movements, parties and political ideologies, conservatism and fascism occupied very different positions within the early and mid-twentieth century European right,…"