Ethan A. Hitchcock Quotes

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Nature admits no lie.

I seek the truth.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.