Quotes About Truth

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

I know how hard it is for us to look at our lives and think of ourselves as royalty. But the truth is, God is our King and we are chosen by Him (1 Peter 2:9). Unfortunately, many of us have traded the truth of who God says we are for a tarnished version of ourselves, fashioned by the approval of others and adorned with our own insecurities.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

preferring actual ignorance to the appearance of it, he did not ask.

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.

nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?

Unlikely things are often true . . .

La sospecha siempre ronda las mentes culpables.

Secrets were pernicious and I wanted nothing to do with them.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single reader in proximity to a good bookstore, must be in want of a reading recommendation.

The greatest enemy we have is Satan, and he is called the father of lies. His tactic is to remind us of what we are NOT instead of whose we ARE. —Bianca Juárez Olthoff

one thing seems certain: we must listen to the deep source of wisdom within ourselves and tell the truth about our lives and what we are learning. This means questioning everything we have been taught or taken for granted that is not validated by our own experience. Simply by asking one key question, Is this true for me?

As Simone de Beauvoir observed, we must prefer to fathom rather than flatter ourselves.

But the truth stretched out in front of him; loving her hadn't been enough. Not enough for her.

Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.

If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.

I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.

It really is too bad that sometimes inconvenient facts surface to thumb their noses at remarkably elegant hypotheses.