Quotes About Truth

If people want real information, they have to go beyond advertising to disinterested sources such as Consumer Reports.

When you hear the same story everywhere you look and listen, you assume it must be true.

When you hear the same story everywhere you look and listen, you assume it must be true. And the more people believe it's true, the more likely they are to repeat it, and thus the more likely you are to hear it. This is how inaccurate information can create a bandwagon effect, leading quickly to a broad, but mistaken, consensus.

What looks attractive in prospect doesn't always look so good in practice.

Useful thing a warrant. Murder and theft change their names if you have one.

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to require it to resemble the viscous substance of truth.

he truly suffered . . . not as some unbelievers say, that he suffered only in appearance. They are the ones who are only an appearance

An "orthonymous" (literally, "rightly named") writing is one that really is written by the person who claims to be writing it.

Plato, too, had emphasized a kind of dualism of shadow and reality, matter and spirit.

like all groups of Christians at all times and in all places, understood themselves to be the fortunate heirs of the truth, handed down to them by their faithful predecessors, who received their understandings about God, Christ, the world, and our place in it from people who should know—ultimately from the apostles of Jesus, and through them from Jesus himself, the one sent by God.

When he comes to learn that he is in fact not related to the queen, and so is not the royal heir

But the historian is no more able to pronounce on ultimate "truth" than anyone else. That is to say, historians cannot decide who is right in the question of whether there is one God or two; they can simply show what different people have thought at different times.

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

The Need for an Empty Tomb ... If there was no empty tomb, Jesus was not physically raised.

the truth that people should prefer to suffer injustice than commit it, that they should actually be good instead of simply seeming to be.

If you accept the Bible, you should accept it for what it is: a document of faith that is not a history book.

people either live in the light or walk in the darkness; they either stand for the truth or propagate error.

if I was truly committed to God, I also had to be fully committed to the truth.

What if the book you take as giving you God's words instead contains human words?

the God of Revelation cannot be the true God.

there is nothing objectively that makes objectivity objectively true)

propositional statements