Thurgood Marshall Quotes

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

All truth is profound.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Truth is a big concept.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Being is the great explainer.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Truth is an illusory notion.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

Science is not wisdom.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.