Quotes About Truth

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

There's something about honesty...A chap's got to be honest. Never forget it all thy entire life. And there's a funny thing about honesty...No two ways about it; there's only one way about it....(Father to son, Joe)

And there's a funny thing about honesty; there's no two ways about it. There's only one way about it. Honest is honest.

That's what I wanted to say. Ye mustn't think we're over hard on thee. We don't want to be. It's just – well – back of it all, a chap's got to be honest, Joe. And never thee forget that, all thy life, no matter what comes. Ye've got to be honest.

Without the Gospel, I am only projecting behavioral modification. Changes of the heart must trump mere change of behavior. Therefore, the goodness of God through the gospel must trump all other philosophies in the home.

Preaching is spiritual warfare! Ephesians 3:10 tells us that when we preach, something supernatural happens.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real?

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.* We shouldn't be afraid of the facts. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it .