Quotes About Truth

Extracting useful information from experience is difficult. It requires the purest of motivations ("things should be made better, not worse") to perform it properly. It requires the willingness to confront error, forthrightly, and to determine at what point and why departure from the proper path occurred.

Adam," calls God, apparently forgetting that He can see through bushes,

Actions based upon the desire to take responsibility; to make things better; to avoid temptation and face what we would rather avoid; to act voluntarily, courageously, and truthfully—these make what comes into Being much better, in all ways, for ourselves and for others, than what arises as a consequence of avoidance, resentment, the search for revenge, or the desire for mayhem.

Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.

the logical mind serves as a human bullshit detector.

In truth, there was more than one thing behind it, but at the heart of the transformation was a powerful visualization technique that I taught the Strattonites called future pacing.

Well, I've got a news flash for you," I continued sarcastically. "You're wrong. People see through that shit in two seconds flat, especially rich people, who are constantly on guard for that. To them, it's actually repulsive, not attractive, which is the opposite of what building rapport is all about." I shrugged.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.

When you reason correctly, as Silver does, you find that you always think you're right, but you don't think you're always right.

Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.

If you've ever run an experiment, you know scientific truth doesn't pop out of the clouds blowing a flaming trumpet at you. Data is messy, and inference is hard.

When we say that there's a 5% chance that RED is true, we are making a statement not about the global distribution of biased roulette wheels (how could we know?) but rather about our own mental state. Five percent is the degree to which we believe that a roulette wheel we encounter is weighed toward the red.

There is a proper measure in things. There are, finally, certain boundaries short of and beyond which what is right cannot exist").

Math is a science of not being wrong about things,

if you want an honest view of what's going on, you also have to consider the planes that didn't come back.

Revised Sherlock Holmes quote) It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn't occur to you to consider.

statistically noticeable" or "statistically detectable" instead of "statistically significant"! That would be truer to the meaning of the method,

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront (from the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek)

When you have something to say, silence is a lie

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

Hal Yakzuby le enseñó algo, no directamente, pero si indirectamente que los humanos quieren ser engañados. A veces tienen la verdad ante sus ojos y la ignoran, la desprecian, la desprecian, no la aceptan.

Algú va dir que la veritat surt quan es busca.

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