Quotes About Truth

He was a poet and hated the approximate.

To 'die to prove that I alone was right' was meaningless, Gandhi said on 5 June

In the Punjab of 1857, flattery was realism's sibling.

that by defeating several Muslim chiefs in battle, the Maharaja had conveyed to the Muslims that 'the edge of the sword [was] not always evidence of the truth of

Here Tolkien states, in indirect form, one of the deepest of Christian truths: all love that is not ordered to the love of God turns into hatred.

satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149).

The Gospel is the ultimate fairy-story, Tolkien concludes, because it contains "the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe.... There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits.... To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath" (MC, 156).

Sure, you're entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong you are.

In case nobody told you three, nobody

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.

Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incomprehensible writing can't be comprehended risk being told that the problem is theirs.

The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.

Though at every point you showed that what you were saying was true, yet I, convinced by that truth, had no answer to give you except merely slow and sleepy words: "At once"—"But presently"—"Just a little longer, please." But "At once, at once" never came to the point of decision, and "Just a little longer, please" went on and on for a long while. . . .

Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thes 2:3-12)

Law and truth are defined by power groups in favor of their ideologies, products of their darkened minds. Tolerance has come to mean tolerance for everyone who agrees with me and hostility towards those who disagree.

of God and his Word and sexual sin and disorders. Romans 1 gives a devastating account of the downward descent into sexual confusion and disorder that flows from a rejection of God and a willful suppression of the truth that he has revealed to all mankind. The rejection of God's Word regarding sexuality and its purposes in the name of "fulfillment" not only assaults Christian values but produces a harvest which is miserable in simply human terms.

Francis says we should make reasonable efforts to refute lies that are being told about us, but if our efforts are not effective, we should simply go on with our lives trusting in God to care for us, continuing to humble ourselves. If He permits our reputation to be taken away from us it will either be "to give us a better one or to make us profit by holy humility, of which a single ounce is preferable to a thousand pounds of honor.

A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.

Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we'll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving us prey to demagogues and despicable entertainments.

But a man lies to himself, and never more so than he does about a woman.

But in the real world-in which even academics perish-war often changes everything. The blood-drunk killer is rarely disarmed by the man who lives in books-or by the eternal adolescent clinging to the lie that all men want peace.

Some of the attendees protested. One guy said, "We have jobs. We can't keep making up excuses to miss work." "If you can't lie to your boss, how are going to succeed at this?" the presenter responded.