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| Speaking Truth |
A common-sense interpretation of the facts suggest that a super intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. Sir Fred Hoyle
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson
On carelessly made or insufficient observations how many fine theories are built up which do not bear examination. Andre Gide
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art. Charles McCabe
Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as a touchstone for our judgment. John F Kennedy.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed. Goethe
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Martin Luther King
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Wilton Jones
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. Saint Exupery
Many of the truths we cling to are greatly the result of our own point of view. John Lucas
You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. Luigi Pirandello
There are but two truths in the world the Bible and Greek architecture. Nicholas Biddle
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over. David Nichols
Facts may weaken under extreme heat and pressure. Graham Bergen
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. Stanley Baldwin
If facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of. Peter Maier
Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts. Bette Davis
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion; none to speak of. Taylor Smith
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. Camillo Di Cavour
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones, is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Jules Henri Poincairé
If a scientist uncovers a publishable fact, it will become central to his theory. His theory, in turn, will become central to all scientific truth. Murphy’s Law
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. Oscar Wilde
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. Michel Montaigne
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf
Mental things which have not gone in through the senses are vain and bring forth no truth except detrimental. Leonardo
Each one of us has his own reality to be respected before god, even when it is harmful to one’s very self. Luigi Pirandello
The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. Richard Sheridan
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move, today is today, always is today. Octavio Paz
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world. Muhammad Ali
What was once called the objective world is a sort of ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. Lewis Mumford
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts… Seek simplicity and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Benjamin Disraeli
All our separate fictions add up to joint reality. Stanislaw Lec
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth. Wilmot Chowder
What is actual is actual for only one time; and only for one place. T. S. Eliot
The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it. John Stuart Mill
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. Patrick Moynihan
You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the answer of the hour qualified, the answers of the year contradictory. Edwin Way Teale
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. Cyril Connolly
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn’t it. Anthony Hope
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. Jacques Barzun
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth. Jean Giraudoux
I like reality, it tastes of bread. Jean Anouilh
Thank god, except at its one moment there’s never any such thing as a bare fact. Ten minutes later, half an hour later, one’s begun to glaze the fact over with a deposit of some sort. Elizabeth Bowen
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. Emerson
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Realists do not fear the results of their study. Dostoevsky
A fact is like a sack which won’t stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist. Luigi Pirandello
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate it than to refine themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. Alfred North Whitehead
