Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy. H. P. Lovecraft affectconcealconflict Change image and share on social
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre disenchantmentdreamermistake Change image and share on social
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. Herman Melville bannistchurchclergyman share on social
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson closeerrorfalsehood Change image and share on social
What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder. Art Blakey dropeventuallygrind Change image and share on social
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. Ada Lovelace abstractderivemathematics Change image and share on social
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. Adrienne Rich dayfalsehistory Change image and share on social
I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in. Edward St Aubyn discoverdramaticfact Change image and share on social
When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth. Ray Blanton speaktelltruth Change image and share on social
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth. Daniel Keys Moran americanbelieveextreme share on social
