Quotes About Truth

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

whatever people say I am, that's what i'm not

Dark should torch of Truth be never, For it burns with love divine. Light it should all people, nations, In our hearts should be its shrine.

I sing to the realists .People who accept it like it is .

If you hook up a politician to a lie detector machine, the shrapnel could kill everyone in the room.

Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

Turn over that stone" - she pointed to a flint nearby - "and you will find a charlatan who will dazzle you with the favorable conjunction of Mercury and Venus, flatter your future, and sell you colored water for a gold piece. I can't be bothered with it. From me you get the actuality.

But truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are stronger and run faster.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

Lo que necesitamos —dijo Koehn— es sabiduría, porque la información... no es igual al conocimiento, y el conocimiento no es igual al entendimiento, y el entendimiento no es igual a la sabiduría...

Socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living.

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

I didn't know if the cure for my life was to lie to everyone about everything or to become brutally honest.

The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, "You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.

Likevel har jeg alltid insistert på å ha hatt en løkkelig barndom – jeg tør faen ikke annet. Hvis jeg først sku åpna døra inn til hemmelighetenes kott, er jeg redd det ville velta ut mange øgler og slimete padder – og det har jeg pokker ikke mot til.

Finding this true self can be a remarkably difficult goal. We lie to ourselves on a regular basis, often so well that we are completely deaf to certain aspects of our personalities until the day we die. Working with that shadowed side of ourselves can be rewarding, however, and maintaining a harmony between our darker aspects and our positive aspects brings our personal energy into balance.

Your true self is not necessarily the self you wish you could be; it is the self you actually are.

you." "Bullshit.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.