
“It's as easy to utter lies as truth.”
(1945)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“It's as easy to utter lies as truth.”
(1945)
“A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”
ABC Radio "AM" (25 August 1995)
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth”
Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 291
Context: Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth; some of its rivals do. That science is in some respects inhuman may be the secret of its success in alleviating human misery and mitigating human stupidity.
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 52
Context: I became mentally bifocal, and so I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since, although damage may be too dark a word, for it merely meant that I could never belong entirely to one side of any question. To be a Communist would be absurd to me, as absurd as to be entirely anything and equally impossible. I straddled the globe too young.
“There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.”
in Kevin Warwick "The Matrix - Our Future?", Chapter in "Philosophers Explore the Matrix", edited by C.Grau, Oxford University Press, 2005.
“All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.”
De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)
“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. xxvii