Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

There is no such thing as an absolute truth to be discovered.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.