Quotes About Truth

If anyone imagines that scientists are dispassionate and impartial people, discussing theories and ideas unemotionally in the cool clear light of reason, they have been seriously misled.

and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth is invoked, but a wholesale leveling of the artifices of personality, a selfless plunge into...into what I had thought must remain forever hidden, to the substance of what I had always kept in shadow ... to that point where self becomes sorrow ...

It's not about the fact of the matter as such, it is about the sentiment beneath. You can apply all the usual fact-checking tools to the literal claim, but the real point is always buried in the subtitles, and no amount of correction will belie that.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

I am light! I am truth! I am might! I am truth!

according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they covered up the abuses of American troops.

Great illusions will always look real, but even that cannot escape the truth that comes with time. Time will tell.

The truth was the dreams she'd been having for the past half year about the muscular stranger with glowing, amber-gold eyes had become progressively more disturbing. He was her nighttime visitor every time she closed her eyes. Liv had even named him—inside her head she called him "the dark man." For

I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal agenda. That may be true most of the time, but not with 'Nothing but the Truth.'

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

One must be frank to be relevant.

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

I believe a journalist needs to be free to ask the questions he or she deems relevant, without constraints from others.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

The point of my stories was not to defeat Trump. The point was to tell readers the facts about this man running for president. How reliable was he at keeping promises? How much moral responsibility did he feel to help those less fortunate than he? By the end of the election, I felt I'd done my job.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Real religion is no religion at all.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.

All the religions are right when they say that all the other religions are wrong.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.