Quotes About Truth

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

My hope is that we can leave behind preconceived notions and search for what the world and the Bible actually tell us about the God of creation.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.

The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have tied logic in knots to advance a doctrine addressing this very same point. What is the Virgin Birth, after all, but the fumbling of minds striving to deal with the indelicate realities of the body? We Jews are merely more forthright about such matters.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

I teach that all men are mad.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.