Quotes About Truth

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

Lies beget other lies.

To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.

The search for comfort at the expense of truth has never been a motive for religious belief, since all creeds are chock-full of terrible proposals, which are no more comfort to anyone and which the faithful believe despite the pain it causes them, for fear of leaving some dark corner of reality unacknowledged.

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.

I]f the basic claims of religion are true, the scientific worldview is so blinkered and susceptible to supernatural modification as to be rendered nearly ridiculous; if the basic claims of religion are false, most people are profoundly confused about the nature of reality, confounded by irrational hopes and fears, and tending to waste precious time and attention--often with tragic results. Is this really a dichotomy about which science can claim to be neutral?

Saint Augustine

Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

In Sunday school, they made it sound like the women of the Bible were a bunch of pious schoolmarms—but nothing could be further from the truth.

Take Tamar, for instance. She disguises herself as a harlot and sleeps with her own father-in-law, just to prove what a hypocrite he is.

The soul discerns what is true, independent of any tradition, institution, or book. Our religions are storehouses of secondhand insights, useful for inspiration but harmful when substituted for firsthand communion with the divine soul.  To the religiously devout, this may seem like a dangerous, revolutionary idea. But really, the truth of the soul is the oldest of revelations.

Socrates—were

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

You're never wrong to do the right thing

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.