Quotes About Truth

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.

And this the world calls frenzy; but the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the distance of its fantasies, And brings life near in utter nakedness, Making the cold reality too real!

There is a commonplace book argument, Which glibly glides from every vulgar tongue When any dare a new light to present: 'If you are right, then everybody's wrong.' Suppose the converse of this precedent So often urged, so loudly and so long: 'If you are wrong, then everybody's right.' Was ever everybody yet so quite?

Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction

the Bible "outlives, out lifts, outloves, outreaches, outranks, outruns all other books."4

Those who neglect theology may live a shallow, insipid form of Christianity that, in the end, neither affects life nor endures the test of time.

You don't need the truth to set you free, just a little courage.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

Anachron's Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron's Corollary: There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.

People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

Idealists should always strive to underestimate others, as that will bring them closer to reality.

Honesty is the best policy that almost no one uses.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

The truth never hurts — much.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit. The trouble with trying to think clearly is that our emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

If you really want to change Reality, the first thing to do is figure out what Reality really is.

The more accurate you are about Reality, the more fun you can have with it.

There are no inherent mysteries, only intricate misunderstandings.

Iconoclasts who go around popping cherished myths are usually highly unpopular — until either they, or the myths, are dead.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.