truth

"John Wooden's interview on Charlie Rose in 2000"

"This, I feel, is missing a vital point: that the sceptic is often a totally honest person who, for perfectly good, sound reasons, simply cannot see a case for belief. In fact many -- like Courty Bryan…"

"An untruth must be spoken, where need requires. For whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object. Men lie, because they think to gain by deceiving others; and speak the truth, beca…"

"Great truths have to be seen and lived and revealed again and again."

"We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it."

"It is not up to us to deliver judgments. Only God will be able to tell the truth."

"We all know- or at least we are told continually- that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too …"

"Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings."

"He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian."

"Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history."

"As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone."

"Whether it be politics, philosophy, religion or anything else, the once cardinal characteristic of truth is simplicity. The greatest truths that that man ever heard where spoken in the language of sim…"

"Instinct is the direct connection with truth."

"You come back and you don't tell the truth to me, no more. ~ "Committed"

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

"The hardship of it was a pleasure. Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames. Objectively, many of them held only misery, …"

"The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher."

"Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression."

"First Manifesto of Surrealism; The Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism, reprinted in Marguerite Bonnet, ed. . Oeuvres complètes, 1:328. Paris: Éditions Gallimard"

"It’s said that “power corrupts,” but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as servi…"