Quotes About Truth

Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn has noted the following: Every culture has a concept of murder, distinguishing this from execution, killing in war and other justifiable homicides. The notions of incest and other regulations upon sexual behavior, the prohibitions on untruth under defined circumstances, of restitution and reciprocity, of mutual obligations between parents and children—these and many other moral concepts are altogether universal.17

A sixth weakness of relativism is that it allows no room for moral reformers or prophets.

A final objection to relativism is the charge that its central premise, namely that moral absolutes do not exist, is a self-defeating statement, since the premise itself is an absolute.

Scott B. Smith

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." — Buddha

truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.

To understand who people really are, start a fire. When everything is going fine, you see only the safest parts of people's character. It's only when something is burning that you find out who people really are.

And the gap between what people think is wrong and what is actually wrong can be quite far indeed.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Initially, only the crabs demurred. "It's not hot in here," Sarin said acidly. "Nothing has changed. You're all imagining things.

My advisors tell me I've been poisoned and that I do it to myself, but their tongues speak only half-truths, for I was born to suffer, and that is truth incarnate.

So little of what we observe is Actuality. Do we see/hear the words pouring forth? Are they Truth? I wish and hope but my future is predestined per my parents' belief and that is denial and death, the deepest pits of hell, the thorniest of crowns, no sympathy, simply guilt, pain, anguish and lament. Call me your Anti-Savior and I'll take on your pain too.

of course i have learned over the years that my fantasies are always better than reality and i leave it at that.

you look your woman in the eye and kill her by telling her the truth or you turn away and let her see what she wants. i try not to shake too much when i turn the lights out and the sobbing begins

I see things differently. Rocks look suspicious to me as do certain hubcaps. Paranoia seeps through my pores, it's just a part of me. Truthfully, I don't know what to say anymore. My body is a piece of art; I don't care about external scars, it's the internal ones I live with and Satan dances towards me.

reality is often little more than a mirror reflecting visions made of ice and steel cold permanent and carefully contrived

Even the prophets suspected they were mad, and kept their mouths shut Only the poor—who are with us always—only they continued in the hope.

I'd make stuff up, like, 'I heard that when Jesus built furniture he never used glue in the joints, that he'd touch them and they'd hold forever.

Too often I see performances that aren't rooted in truth. Oftentimes, those are performances that tend to win awards.

Even the most liberal religious scholars will agree on two things: one, the baptism of Jesus happened; and two, the crucifixion was real.

I don't want to believe because I'm crazy. I want to believe because it's true.

My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.