Quotes About Truth

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Just because an interpretation is commonly held doesn't mean it's correct.

There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.

That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.

Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.

No one can consistently get everything wrong. Such perfection does not exist.

We have spawned 'leadership' that does not lead, that panders to our whims rather than telling us the truth, that follows the crowd rather than challenging us, that weakens us rather than strengthening us," he wrote. "It is easy to go downhill, and we are now following that easy path. Pandering is not illegal, but it is immoral. It is doing the convenient when the right course demands inconvenience and courage.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

We can trust God; we can trust that God is loving. And we can trust that we can—and that we certainly should—take God, in this matter, as in all things, at his word.

Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.

History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it—and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…