Quotes About Truth

If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work

When people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

Beliefs," things we hold to be true but which may not be easily verified.

teachers and criminals and real-estate agents may lie, and politicians, and even C.I.A. analysts. But numbers don't.

It is easy to get seduced by complexity; but there is virtue in simplicity too.

There is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer. The incentives to fake it are simply too strong.

Ya estamos completamente acostumbrados a las falsas proclamaciones públicas de los políticos. Pero los votantes también mienten.

contar historias que se basan en datos acumulados y no en anécdotas personales, anomalías llamativas, opiniones personales, estallidos emocionales o tendencias morales.

If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.

So the conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable, and comforting—though not necessarily true. It would be silly to argue that the conventional wisdom is never true.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

que sugiere que el contacto típico de Internet es mentiroso, narcisista o sencillamente tiene una idea muy particular del significado de «media».

El 28% de las mujeres de la página web declaraban ser rubias, un número bastante superior a la media, lo cual indica grandes dosis de tinte, de mentira, o de ambos.

on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.

Being confident you are right is not the same as being right.

rely on accumulated data rather than on individual anecdotes

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion but not to their own facts.

There is no greater abuse of the Bible than to proclaim in God's name what God is not saying.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" "Yes, Lord," she replied, "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world." John 11:25–27

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. —André Gide

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

There's nothing about the times when she wasn't funny or sexy, or when she talked too much or about her pissing or shitting. There's no way to really preserve a person when they're gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story.

An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence." We're blind to our blindness.