Quotes About Truth

It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question: What is the meaning of la ilaha illa Allah? Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered.

The mind for truth Begins, like a stream, shallow At first, but then Adds more and more depth While gaining greater clarity.

Tiedän varmasti todellisuuden epä- todelliseksi - Miten siis millään voisin myöntää unet uniksi?

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.

In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Toda poesia é uma ontologia.

It's stained and frayed in such distinctive ways, but it's very definitely made out of wool. And now...now it's polyester, which means that I'm not lying on my carpet in my apartment. You have lived up to your reputation Mr Cobb. I'm still dreaming!

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

DID YOU KNOW!?! That all of human history can be described entirely in terms of the interaction between contractors and middle-level management. It's all true It's impossible to lie in any language and equally impossible to tell the truth.

Ladies and gentlemen good evening You've seen that seeing is believing Your ears and your eyes will be bleeding Please check to see if you're still breathing

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

I use humour to hide behind, because I cannot bear to feel my feelings, cannot face the truth.