Quotes About Truth

The new dimensions of the message are examples of the Spirit of truth doing what Jesus promised he would do: continuing

We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in prose or in poetry. Romano

For Watts, then, while faith is unreserved openness to the truth—a refusal to reduce truth to what we already understand, beliefs are ideas we cling to because we wish they were true or want them to be true.

For me, Carol, we can't be faithful to God unless we're faithful to the facts, faithful to the data if you will. And so, instead of hiding from evolution, I think we'd be more faithful to God to look it right in the eye and learn from it.

Human kingdoms advance by force and violence with falling bombs and flying bullets, but God's kingdom advances by stories, fictions, tales that are easily ignored and easily misunderstood. Perhaps that's the only way it can be.1

and metaphorical message that required me to face life's paradoxes squarely and be humbled by them.

point is that we have some ugly skeletons in our closet that we don't acknowledge

In prayer we become the locus of the divine dialogue between Father and Son; we are in Spirit and truth.

to pass, and then he dealt with the reality in front of them.

Sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.

The overarching lesson that has emerged from scientific inquiry over the last century is that human experience is often a misleading guide to the true nature of reality.

The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature's sleights of hand.

In Plato's parable of the cave, our senses are privy only to a flattened, diminished version of the true, more richly textured, reality. Maldacena's flattened world is very different. Far from being diminished, it tells the full story. It's a profoundly different story from the one we're used to. But his flattened world may well be the primary narrator.

There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.

Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. —GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I

The greatest of mankind's criminals are those who delude themselves into thinking they have done "the right thing." —RAYNA BUTLER, sermons on Salusa Secundus

Truth belongs to those who control that perspective.

My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering—even Omnius knew it. On the other hand, Serena had told him the truth.

Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.

Secrets do not diminish when they are spread among many ears.

We believe that confession should lead to forgiveness and redemption. Usually, however, it leads only to further accusations.