Quotes About Truth

Lies are like fleas hopping from here to there, sucking the blood of the intellect.

Your mind reasons in syllogisms. In practical terms, this means that whatever major premises your conscious mind assumes to be true, that determines the conclusion your subconscious mind will come to, no matter what the particular question or problem might be. If your premises are true, the conclusion must be true.

It is also a universal truth that whatever you impress on your subconscious mind is expressed on the screen of space as condition, experience, and event.

Your subconscious mind does not have the ability to argue or dispute what it is told. If you give it wrong information, it will accept it as true. It will then work to make that information correct. It will bring your suggestions, even those that were false, to pass as conditions, experiences, and events.

Art is affirmation.

Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold!

If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.

You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.

Yes. That's it. Speaking about it to others would have made it real. It would have become a fact. Their reaction, their responses, their words -- it would all tell me that the terrible thing had happened. That I wasn't just imagining it.

Maybe there is no news, Lily said, but only a moment later he corrected himself. There is news, they just don't put it in the newspapers anymore.

it doesn't matter to a person when he is in a hall of mirrors — he himself knows he is the one who is real. The confusion is for the onlookers.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

You are who you pretend to be.

Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right. Think [and speak] about things that are pure and lovely, and dwell on the fine, good things in others" (Phil. 4:8 LB).

as the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas comments, "The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you … not in a building of wood and stone.

Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.

He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.

You'd better tell me about that lie, Giles, said the old man, massaging his forehead. From all the sin you keep going on about, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular.

That was Bold Heart? cried the shield maiden. That stupid bird told me he was the Bard, but I assumed he was lying. So many birds do. You can understand birds? said Pega… What's that one saying?... Thorgil listened. He's saying, 'I'm itchy. I'm itchy. I'm itchy.' And that one's saying, 'So am I. So am I. So am I.' The one on the beech tree is singing, 'Bird lice, bird lice, we've all got bird lice!' Knowing does kind of take the fun out of it, decided Pega.

I am meant to have justice!

Unlike any other book that has ever been written, the Bible is alive; and it comes to with a personal Tutor-the Holy Spirit, who lives in us.

What we believe about God is crucial because it affects what we believe about everything else.