Quotes About Truth

glass. And there really weren't any

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you've built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.

It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

I'm not going to force some theory on a mystery and make foolishness of it, just because that is what people who talk about it normally do.

you never do know the actual nature even of your own experience. Or perhaps it has no fixed and certain nature.

I have always wondered what relationship this present reality bears to an ultimate reality.

And they want me to defend religion, and they want me to give them proofs. I just won't do it. It only confirms them in their skepticism. Because nothing true can be said a out God from a posture of defense.

A society is moving toward dangerous ground when loyalty to the truth is seen as disloyalty to some supposedly higher interest. How many times has history taught us this?

Because nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.

We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.

Thinking that we know more than we do, therefore rejecting what we are given as experience, blinds us to our ignorance, which is the deep darkness where truth abides. And our wealth of ignorance grows and multiplies. Much

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.' There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them. That's a bit of fatherly wisdom, but it's also the Lord's truth, and a thing I know from my own long experience.