Quotes About Truth

integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself - especially goodness and truth

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws.

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What have we to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity! – Isaac Asimov

Widely disseminated disinformation is as good as information until discredited.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real." -Abe Sapien

Kings imagine they are powerful because they command armies. But in their truest moments, they finally learn who they are. Warriors fight wars, Asura. While kings die weak men.

And the truth is cold, as a giant's knee Will seem cold.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

The horses Have each seen a share of the truth, though each thinks, "I'm a maverick. Nothing of this is happening to me

I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave all out would be another, and truer, way.

Each moment / of utterance is the true one; likewise none is true.

Beliefs are not some special category of idea sitting at a higher station of truth than our ordinary, everyday mortal thoughts. Beliefs are not neccesarily "the truth" at all. (Remember, there was a time everyone believed the earth was flat)

There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]

Revelation is not to be thought of as the communication of hidden truths, as if in revelation God were lifting the veil on something other than his own self and indicating it to us. Revelation is divine self-presentation; its content is identical with God. To speak of revelation is simply to point to God's speaking of his own most holy name.

The particular task of theology is to attest the truth of the gospel in the wake of Christ's own self-attestation. Theology edifies by testifying to the gospel as promise and claim.

The Conference of the Birds,

A leader who delivers the truth and does so calmly and confidently gives people a reason to believe that the right people are in charge and will do what they can to improve the situation.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.