Quotes About Truth

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true.

Yet somehow, if the translation from reality into symbols is done artfully enough, the logic of calculus can use one real-world truth to generate another. Truth in, truth out.

divert the discussion from its main intent and fasten upon some statement of mine which lacks a hair's-breadth of the truth and, under this hair, hide the fault of another which is as big as a ship's cable.

o There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth, it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.

There's no way to really preserve a person when they've gone and that's because whatever you write down it's not the truth; it's just a story. Stories are all we're ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.

A lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth," the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels memorably claimed.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Truth is stronger than lies, and love is stronger than fear.

13. The more distorted our sense of reality, the more certain we will be that what we believe is accurate. 14. The more insistent a person is about the accuracy of his or her observations, the more likely it is that his or her sense of reality is distorted.

Certitude is not evidence of truth. Nor does repetition make it true. If anything, repetition should make you suspicious. Truth always stands up to scrutiny on its merits.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

La unica forma de poder deshacerse de la palabra [un termino], es hablar lo bastante sobre las cosas y finalmente escapar de la palabra y conseguir lo que realmente quieres.

Reality, truth, and knowledge are matters about which there is less consensus than one might hope.

W]e can discover the world, but we decide upon the truth.

May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?"43

All men of God must take forth the banner of truth, and once more valiantly proclaim the magnificent sovereignty of God in man's regeneration. May such preaching ring from pulpits today.

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

For many years I thought I was a Christian when in fact I was not. It was only later that I came to see that I had never been a Christian and became one.… What I needed was preaching that would convict me of sin.… But I never heard this. The preaching we had was always based on the assumption that we were all Christians.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

The only true reformation is that which emanates from the Word of God.

What God has to say to man is infinitely more important than what man has to say to God.