Quotes About Truth

the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.

For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. —HOBBES, Leviathan

No one would be fooled, but propriety would be maintained.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it.

What was it like when people agreed on facts, you mean?" Enoch asked.

he had arrived at the conclusion that political stability anywhere was an illusion that only a simpleton would believe in. That

Se podían haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosóficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofía no contaba demasiado.

These people cared about eternal truths. Believed that some—but not all—such truths were written down in a book. That their book was right and the others wrong. This much they had in common with most of the other people who had ever lived.

Rather than go see a real small town for free, he had paid money to see a pretend one, and rather than see it with the naked eye, he was watching it on television.

Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror.

Avi thinks this over before issuing the carefully engineered statement: "It is as true as it ever was.

It is the truth," said Oda-sensei. "Sometimes the truth is flattering.

How can you be a Christian without believing in that?" "I would say," Juanita says, "how can you be a Christian with it? Anyone who takes the trouble to study the gospels can see that the bodily resurrection is a myth that was tacked onto the real story several years after the real histories were written. It's so National Enquirer-esque, don't you think?

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' and sometimes we repeat it to ourselves as a reminder not to let subjective emotions cloud our judgment.

You know what a fact is? That's something that has nothing to do with politics.

Shall we then say, like Newton, that all such truths are made arbitrarily by God? Shall we seek such truths in the occult? For if God has laid these rules down arbitrarily, then they are occult by nature. To me this notion is offensive; it seems to cast God in the rôle of a capricious despot who desires to hide the truth from us.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Most people, on listening to a string of nonsense, will tend to doubt their own sanity before they realize that the person who is jabbering at them is really the one with the damaged brain.

As they came out of a stand of big oaks and maples and broke out into windswept prairie near the brow of the hill, she saw the truth, which was that people had actually been nailed to those crosses and left to die.

Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full of shit. That was the only way to get anything done in hacking. No one took it personally.

Punjab, the more certain he became that simple and obvious would defeat complicated and clever

When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. That is, you are telling them what they are supposed to know, what you want them to understand is true. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth.

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.