3 December 2020 Carl Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
3 December 2020 Kinky Friedman I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
3 December 2020 John Locke The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
3 December 2020 Charles Peguy He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
3 December 2020 Alan Cohen Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
3 December 2020 Danica McKellar People talk about ‘getting rid of the old image’, and I guess there’s some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved ‘The Wonder Years’ – I can’t turn my back on it.
3 December 2020 Jules Verne Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
3 December 2020 Swami Vivekananda Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
3 December 2020 Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
3 December 2020 Carl Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
3 December 2020 Audre Lorde I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
