3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
3 December 2020 T. E. Lawrence I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
3 December 2020 George Santayana It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
3 December 2020 Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
3 December 2020 Andre Malraux Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
3 December 2020 Samuel Goldwyn I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
3 December 2020 Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
3 December 2020 Henry Louis Gates The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
3 December 2020 Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
3 December 2020 Bette Davis There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
