George Bancroft Quotes

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

Rationality is an achievement that can be undone at any moment.

Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego.

The truth is true wherever you find it. Remember, sugar is sweet whether you find it in a sugar bowl or a dust pan.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

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.

For scientists, reality is not optional.