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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
-Meister Eckhart
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I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient himself in the world. What I did not understand is the relation among signs . . . I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.
But in imagining an erroneous order you still found something. . . .
What you say is very fine, Adso, and I thank you. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless . . . The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.
-Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
-Albert Einstein
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
-Albert Einstein
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
-Albert Einstein
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
-Albert Einstein
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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The greater the truth the greater the libel.
-Lord Ellenborough
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.
-Yumus Emre
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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
-Epictetus
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-Epictetus
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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
-Eliza Farnham
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
-Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
-Frederick the Great
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From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
-Sigmund Freud
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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
-Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.
-Erich Fromm
To Have or to Be?, 1979
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
-Robert Frost
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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
-Max Fuller
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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
-Thomas Fuller
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Books about Truth
