Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

My contention is that it is impossible to limit Truth, for that would mean that you were stepping down the Truth to the individual, who is limited. It would be useless to lay down a crystallized method for everyone to follow.

There are many levels of truth.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

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

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Truth is a tendency.

Neither truth, reason, nor justice consists in stubbornness of assertion, nor in the repetition of error.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

The complete truth is not the prerogative of the human judge.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

If we can't agree on objective truth, then how are we ever going to agree on opinions?

I think you always, with anything, need to have different viewpoints.

Everyone is telling the truth all of the time... well, it's just that times change.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Truth is only a question of point of view.