Quotes About Truth

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish caricature of a human being are gone. This picture is false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science.

This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

And there the trail ended: with the quotation exposed as a half-remembered story told by a dead man who might or might not have seen it in a newspaper around 1925, and might or might not have recalled it correctly decades later.

A proposition, which is usually expressed in the form of a sentence, is a statement about reality that can be accepted or rejected.

The Word of God needs to saturate our minds if we want to know and follow God's will.

In western cultures it's not considered tolerant to insist that the only way of salvation is through the blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed on the cross. Yet that is fact. There is only one way in which we can be saved (John 14:6).

The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Un marabutto smise di pregare per interrogarmi. "Esiste un popolo chiamato mericani?" chiese. "Sì". "Dicono che hanno visitato la luna". "E' vero". "Sono blasfemi".

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?

My friend, the poet Mark Nepo, says that the pain was necessary in order to know the truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive in order to keep the truth alive.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem," he wrote. "Reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

los detectores de mentiras, que normalmente miden las respuestas físicas relacionadas con la ansiedad y el estrés

Very often, "what happened" takes years to reveal itself. It takes courage to confront our actions, peel back the layers of trauma in our lives, and expose the raw truth of our past. But this is where healing begins. —

The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged.

So much so that on the night Henry was electrocuted, his last words were that all of his life, he'd gotten it wrong. His parents had taught him wrong, that Black people were the enemy. And he'd had to come to death row to learn what love was.

Insofar as interpretation hits the real, it does not so much hit the truth as create it. For truth exists only within language (it is a property of statements), and thus there is no truth of that which cannot yet be said. Truth is not so much "found" or "uncovered" by interpretation, as created by it.

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.

John Calvin had labored for more than twenty years to find that 'order,' an explanation of Christian doctrine that not only instructed readers in the faith but also moved their hearts and minds to accept the truth of the Gospel. Through those years of writing, revision, and additions, Calvin created one of the great books of his age." Bruce Gordon ?#?CalvinsInstitutes?