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To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is.

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.

To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.