Quotes About Truth

While Kaiser has steadfastly refused to silence the prophets, he also repeatedly warns against giving them the last word.

Kaiser well understands what many people often fail to realize: that God knew perfectly well that there would be a twenty-first century AD back when he was inspiring Moses to write down the Old Testament law, and that the words God revealed in that law would remain essential information—in fact, life-and-death stuff—for believers of all ages, not just Old Testament Israelites.

Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.

all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

Because all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don't it?

Well, who's real? The living or the dead?

Because consciousness is ultimately a matter of faith," James said

The fact that we've heard a claim repeated over and over again doesn't make it correct. But it can lead us to accept this claim as correct even when it's not, because we can confuse a statement's familiarity with its accuracy

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

Like the man who looked for hours under a streetlight for the keys he had dropped in the alley because the light was better there, we waste so much time looking for what we want where it isn't to be found, consumed by "the underlying fear of… being torn away from our chosen image of what or who we are in this world." (Miller)

No longer an innocent newborn, Elizabeth can tease, joke, and play make-believe because a gap has opened between what she knows to be so and what she pretends or imagines. More than any other quality, this gap is what distinguishes our species, enabling us to deceive one another and ourselves, but also enabling us to see beyond the way things happen to be, to envision alternatives, to make art and science and revolution, to invent things new under the sun.

Memory is better than fact anyway, because it's created by feelings.

A millennium's worth of lies leads to a single truth—the future belongs to the young, if the old would kindly die and get the hell out of the way.

I'm sorry, but this isn't a movie or a play—there is no convenient third-act rescue that gives us an easy solution. This is real life.

Don't base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little,

It was the first time I had heard the truth of what happened that afternoon said in a voice that was not my own. Hearing what happened from Ann was like the difference between seeing your face in a mirror and seeing it in a photograph.

Good decisions mad on bad data are just bad decisions you don't know about...yet.

Funny thing about rumors," Sebastian said softly. "It doesn't matter if they're true or false, only that people believe them.

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. (John 17:3)

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21 NIV)

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. (James 1:17–18 NIV)