Judith Martin Quotes

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

Nature tells every secret once.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand.