Quotes About Truth

The Greeks, if the truth be told, were far too wise to have a consistent eschatology that presumed infallible knowledge of the afterlife. They had noted that no one ever returned from death and took the sane and sensible view that those who claimed to know what happened to a person after they died were either fools or liars.

What the eye doesn't see the stomach doesn't heave over.

Humanists do not claim to know, we just ask you to be very wary of those who do claim to know. Who told them? What does their knowledge mean? Why should you trust them? Above all, don't take my word for it either. Don't take anyone's word for it. Find out for yourselves.

You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that's what you wanted to know." "Isn't it the same thing?" "No, it's not. Mother's like a spring flower. That's not strictly a fact. But it is true.

I'm all right, I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.

Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.

When a book was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, he retorted, "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!

Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.

do we really have reason to believe that an objective reality exists?

model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.

In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.

There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.

realismo dependiente del modelo», basada en la idea de que nuestros cerebros interpretan los datos de los órganos sensoriales elaborando un modelo del mundo. Cuando el modelo explica satisfactoriamente los acontecimientos tendemos a atribuirle, a él y a los elementos y conceptos que lo integran, la calidad de realidad o verdad absoluta.

Când analiz?m mai atent felul în care ne facem observaÈ›iile È™i ne construim concepte despre ceea ce ne înconjoar?, ajugem s? ne întreb?m dac? avem motive întemeiate s? credem c? exist? o realitate obiectiv?.

If you make an assumption, we're in a world of confirmation bias, and clarity is the first casualty.

You lie well, and I appreciate the effort it takes. It's not so easy, as any commissar knows.

Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.

Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.

self-deception as the preliminary to public deception is almost automatic. —WALTER LIPPMANN

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among the details, not in the realm of pure generality. We must tackle and grasp the larger, encompassing themes of our universe, but we make our best approach through small curiosities that rivet our attention - all those pretty pebbles on the shoreline of knowledge. For the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din.

Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.

Instead of following your heart, you are choosing to lead to lead it. The world says to follow your heart, but if you are not it, then someone or something else is. The Bible says that the heart is more deceitful than all else (Jeremiah 17:9), and it will always pursue that which feels right at the moment.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.