Quotes About Truth

One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust.

Neither boy ever intended to speak about the events at the cliff that day. But of course their mothers eventually worked the truth out of them. Mothers always do.

A wise man once told me, don't believe anything you hear until you've seen it with your own eyes," Halt said. Crowley looked up at him. "Who said that? Pritchard?" It sounded like the sort of thing their old mentor might say. Halt affected to think for a few seconds, then gave a slight smile. "No. I think it was me, actually. I can be very wise at times.

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

people will believe half-truths and distortions if they coincide with what they want to believe. If they reflect their fears.

Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise

Now see what you have done?" he said. "Not only have you shamed me in front of a guest, you have made that guest lie on your behalf.

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

meditation or consideration is a further inquisition into the truth. Set consideration at work and, not like brutes, suffer your eyes, ears, lusts, and senses to be your guides. But commune with your hearts, consider your ways, reflect on your actions, look to your end--which, if you did, you would not be so sensual, so sinful as you have been and are (Isa. 1:4).

Often the first poem is the hardest, the one caught by a lifetime of being smaller than you are, trapped by your ideas of what art is, what an artist is, immobilized by the judgments of teachers whose names you may never again remember. How did we come to forget that anything true is beautiful? How young were we then?

If there be the truth of grace, there will be an endeavor after the strength of grace.

The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!

His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

I drink to all them that unfeignedly love the Gospel of Christ, and wish for the abolition of popery.

A Christian theist, while conceding that the argument for God's existence is circular, nevertheless will claim that the argument is sound and persuasive. For he devoutly believes that his position is true, and he believes that it can be clearly recognized as such. He believes that God made men to think in terms of this circularity, rather than in terms of some competing circularity.

It is God himself who enables us to accept his Word as our foundation, our presupposition.

You claim to be a man, but that is a lie revealed to any who can see you here. You deny you wish godhood, yet you raise up an empire to praise you. You call yourself the Master of Mankind, and perhaps that is the ONLY truth you ever spoke- that you wish to make your children slaves"- Horus Lupercal

We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.

One of the beautiful things about the gospel of Jesus Christ is that it is progressive in its revelation and application.

Our Lord, the Son in whom God has spoken full and final truth (Heb. 1:1-3), has replaced Moses, the servant through whom God had spoken partial and preparatory truth.

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.

has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

When we risk no contradiction,It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.