“Realism's 'truth' as embodied in painting and literature now solely consists of things capable of being seen by the eye or heard by the ear. Realism is concerned only with the external shell of nature. People content with the discoveries they have made ignore the fact that there are other things to…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“We must be careful to discriminate between our own incapacity to test truth and the necessary improbability of an event. It is plain that from our ignorance of the remote spheres of God's action we cannot judge of His works removed from our experience; but a fact is not necessarily doubtful because…”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humilit…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“In the last few decades, a terribly pernicious rumor has been circulated by the press. It claims, exhibiting a level of stupidity heretofore considered impossible, that a human being could crawl through the arteries of a blue whale. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. I do not know w…”— Jacques Cousteau, amazon.com
“People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, crushedfingers.tumblr.com
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”— Blaise Pascal, en.wikiquote.org
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our depa…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org