Quotes About Truth

The Lord created His girls to have responsive spirits. Women are responders. Responding is in our nature. We will either respond to good or we will respond to evil. We will either respond to truth or be swayed by lies. If we don't establish the practice of receiving and responding to God's Word, we will be more vulnerable to be receptive and responsive to the wrong kinds of men, ideas, or counsel.

Wild" is what we are whenever we disregard God and rely instead on the world's advice, or on what seems right in our own eyes.

I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is, she said. Illusion? He frowned. Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism? I am not cynical, she said. But no, I could not go back.

Life is made up of opposing pairs -- life and death, love and hatred, happiness and misery, light and darkness, and on and on into infinity. Finding balance and contentment is like trying to walk a tightrope between all those opposites without falling off on one side or the other and believing that life must be all light or all darkness, when neither one is truth in itself. Imogene

starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It

An investigator needs facts and not legends or rumours.

process, said I, starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It may well be that several explanations remain, in which case one tries test after test until one or other of them has a convincing amount of support.

promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours

Arthur Conan Doyle

Cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

No hay nada tan engañoso como un hecho evidente -respondió

E je une mê vecje massime chê che, quant che si à scartât l'impussibil, ce che al reste, ancje se improbabil, e scuen jessi la veretât.

It is very well to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing.

Esto sí es un misterio. ¿Qué cree que significa? —Aún no dispongo de esos datos. Es un error capital teorizar antes de disponer de información. Sin darse cuenta, uno empieza a deformar los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de ajustar las teorías a los hechos.

The cunning devil has told her every unsavoury public scandal of his past life, but always in such a way as to make himself out to be an innocent martyr. She absolutely accepts his version and will listen to no other.

Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.

Let me indicate a possible line of thought. It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

Nichts ist trügerischer als eine offenkundige Tatsache.

Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.