Quotes About Truth

To the novice, it doubtless seems a conundrum that lies can have their basis in fact. Consider, however, the individual's need to have his or her desires met. This is fact. If lies are clever enough to fulfill this desire, they become a truth and, therefore, that much harder to dispel.

The first principle of Gnosticism is the nonrecognition of reality.

The temptation to fall from uncertain truth into certain truth is stronger in the clarity of the Christian faith than in other spiritual structures. But the absence of a secure hold on reality and the demanding spiritual strain are generally characteristic of border experiences in which man's knowledge of transcendent being, and thereby of the origin and meaning of mundane being, is constituted.

advocates of opinions who attack one another in daily politics are grouped together over against their common adversary, the philosopher. When

No matter where you go, no matter how far you run, you can't run away from yourself.

The problem with a liar is that he doesn't believe anybody else is capable of telling the truth.

The problem with liars is they don't believe anyone is capable of telling the truth.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Reed gazed at him, unmoved, 'You were so worried about your precious reputations. About the truth ruining you. You didn't see that you'd already been ruined and that the truth was the only thing that could have redeemed you.'" (Sheriff Dan Reed speaking to his Father. Blood Vines, p.355)

If it was wrong, it wouldn't feel right. If he was a killer, she would know.

It's not a collection! You know nothing of inspiration. Of beauty. From the hands and heart flow eternal truth and beauty. And from both spew ugliness and betrayal.

If you're so afraid of the past you have to hide from it, it's not your past. It's your present.

L'homme à qui Dieu n'a pas révélé la vie directement, ce n'est pas un livre qui la lui révélera.

Interpretation reached such proportions that the real vanished.

The Bible's claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer's, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically true reality—it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy.

Who says: 'Here reigns freedom' is lying, because freedom doesn't reign.

It is what it is

Who says: 'Here reigns freedom' is lying, because freedom doesn't reign." Zu sagen "Hier herrscht Freiheit" ist immer ein Irrtum oder auch eine Lüge: Freiheit herrscht nicht.

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.