Quotes About Truth

When the mind is clear and calm, the images it reflects are real and the knowledge it gathers is true. When the mind is agitated and confused, it's like throwing a stone into a still pond, or holding a camera with a shaky hand: the images it reflects are distorted and do not accord with reality.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts

Le monde entier est dans ce que nous disons - et tout entier éclairé par ce que nous taisons. (p. 34)

E poi, ti dirò una cosa: l'"onore" è tutta una questione di prospettiva storica.

Carl Jung wrote: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

Muchos aceptan la verdad por autoridad, en vez de la verdad como autoridad.

Si no conocemos los procesos que nos llevan a creer ciertas cosas, no seremos capaces de evitar creer ciertas cosas que en realidad son ficciones sin fundamento. Son cosas que aprisionan la mente como una soporífera y pesada tela de araña, y no le permiten cobrar altura. Son cosas que si usted las cree pueden llevarlo a la muerte prematura, y no querrá usted morir antes de tiempo, ¿verdad?

El encierro de la verdad es cómplice de la mentira.

Pursuing godliness without also pursuing biblical truth is a sure-fire way to remain in spiritual infancy (Eph. 4:14). The

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose, and all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.' -William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)

All news is an exaggeration of life.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

Daniel Silva

She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.

I suppose it's true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.

Unlike people, numbers never lied.

I am a soldier of Allah, but a great admirer of Winston Churchill. And it was Churchill who said that in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I am a spy," Carter said, relighting his pipe. I lie as a matter of course. So do you.

Daniel Silva