Quotes About Truth

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.

I'd be the first to tell you that stats lie and at receiver more than any other position, stats lie.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.