truth

"the totality of thoughts, perceptions, and values that form a particular vision of reality, a vision that is the basis of the way a society organizes itself"

"It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true."

"Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. He adverts with chaste severity to all natural facts. His sublimity is Greek sincerity and simpleness,…"

"My God, it was really coming true. The higher and higher I climbed in education, the more I was finding people I could talk to."

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

"The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

"Within Plaid Cymru, we have a strong internal democracy which reflects how much we rely on the party membership as a grassroots body. The side effect of this is that measures to promote women are not …"

"You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble."

"The external embodiment of an act is composed of many parts, and may be regarded as capable of being divided into an infinite number of particulars. An act may be looked on as in the first instance co…"

"Is it not possible that an unruly head of hair, an infectious smile, eyes that seem remarkable for the depths of their sincerity, a cultivated air of authority, may attract huge television audiences r…"

"To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and da…"

"Truth does not need to borrow garments from error."

"Sanai Ghaznavi: Enclosed Garden Of Truth : translated by John Stephenson , Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1910"

"The more and the more that he wrote, and the deeper and the deeper that he dived, Pierre saw the everlasting elusiveness of Truth; the universal lurking insincerity of even the greatest and purest wri…"

"Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need."

"As Ralph Ellison wrote more than 35 years ago, 'Why is it so often true that when critics confront the American as Negro, they suddenly drop their advanced critical armament and revert with an air of …"

"Philosophy's aim is not to paint new objects but to give their true color to familiar objects."

"If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true."

"When I behold the scientific and so-called philosophers full of selfish feelings, and of a tenency to war against circumstances and Providence, I say to myself: They are not true priests, they are but…"

"Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures…"