Quotes About Truth

The natural world we perceive through our senses is, for Plato, a defective and incomplete version of this more perfect and timeless realm in the same way that (in the famous metaphor from Book 7 of The Republic) the images seen by the prisoners shackled in their cave are the shadows of the real objects for which the prisoners, in their ignorance, mistake them.

Mathematics is not merely a tool for commercial transactions but rather a visible expression of the world's beauty and truth

His appraisal of the state of the world was a bleak one: "No one speaks truthfully anymore," he writes. "Everything is deceit, lies, cunning, theft, sodomy, wickedness, with no fear of God or concern for the world. O miserable Christians, worse than beasts, where are you headed?

He quoted Saint Jerome's praise that learned men were like stars in the heavens, and the prophet Daniel's that they shine like the sun. "All evil is born from ignorance," he wrote. "Yet writers have illuminated the world, chasing away the darkness, especially those authors from ancient times."35

innocent, as if they perceived only pre-selected facts.

Only the blind had not seen Terry Neville.

Truth is exclusive in every area, in religion, science, farming, and all things else. If you don't believe it, go pick your grapes from thorns, and your figs from thistles.

This is the world of polytheism: it knows no overall truth and order, only fragments and limited connections in the shambles of time and space. Polytheism is a fact of cultural decay and collapse.

A verdade parece terrivelmente aprisionadora porque ela requer que nos comprometamos, contra nossos próprios interesses pessoais, com os mandamentos de Deus e sua Palavra.

Henri de Lubac, one of the most outstanding Roman Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, put it with a clarity and brevity very hard to improve upon: 'It is not sincerity, it is truth which frees us… To seek sincerity above all things is perhaps, at bottom, not to want to be transformed.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Be kind, truthful, and honest. Discipline your thoughts and actions. Concentrate on essentials and disregard nonessentials. Think about what is most important to you and focus your attention on those matters.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

Loving what is right is different from hating what is wrong and feeling right about it.

The road which leads to correct response in each moment of truth is the first step to everything worthwhile.

Now, I must give him credit for this," said Wolfe. "If you ever have a preposterous statement to make… say it in five words or less, because we're always used to five-word sentences as being the gospel truth." The

Roy Peter Clark

Todo lo que vemos o nos parece, no es sino un ensueño en un ensueño!

La obra que, deleitando, consiga dar a luz a la mente y palpitaciones al corazón helado, si aviva la conciencia, si mueve a las acciones nobles y generosas, si enciende el entusiasmo por lo bueno, lo bello y lo verdadero, si se indigna contra las deformidades del vicio y las injusticias sociales y hace que nos interesemos por todos los que sufren, decid que es obra elocuente y eminentemente poética.

Vosotras que me creéis, porque sabéis sentir y presentir, saludad al poeta a su paso, como las vírgenes Sulamitas a David el cantor, y no temáis engañaros, que él lleva consigo las tres palabras de pase para el templo de la inmortalidad: Eros -Lumen -Numen

La luz produce los colores: los colores no encienden la luz.

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