Quotes About Truth

Each arrow was fletched in feathers that once belonged to immortal birds so wise that if you asked them to tell you the meaning of life, they would have an answer, and it would be short, and easy to understand, and as true as tea.

I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.

But which one is right? The real gods? The truth?' I asked. Balthazar smiled gently, as if speaking to a very slow child. 'That is not for us to judge. Each of us believes what seems true enough to him, and allows others the same luxury. Who can know what happened in the dim dawn of the world? We can barely decide what to have for breakfast without a theological debate - the Nurian law is polite disagreement. We do our best with how the world appears to our own eyes.

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.

Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!

Mindannyian a hatalom szörny? hajtóm?vében élünk, amely csikorog, sípol és éget, és így senki sem mondja: a térképre rajzolt vonalak butaságok.

Accuracy is next to godliness.

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself" (p. 5)

You can fool some of the people some of the time—but you'd best not be fooling yourself, the biggest fool of all.

Personal belief system? Is that the problem? That we've all just assumed that truth is what we individually believe? Or is it a collective assumption? That the truth for Germany-and the truth for Britain and Poland and the US- is their own, regardless of how it affects others? Is there no truth- no universal truth- that applies to everyone?

How could you ever think you knew a person? Did everyone lie?

So tell the people that," he said. "The facts can all be validated through expanded thinking and concern for truth. The point is people need to know about mind control. They need to know what is happening to this country's education, mental health, and justice systems. They need to know what the New World Order agenda is about before NAFTA makes economic slaves of all of us. Armed with truth, there is no way to lose.

People would rather hold on to their illusions than face the truth." "It seems to me that people have to know their own truth before they can embrace someone else's," I philosophized. Mark elaborated, "The average public is socially engineered to the point where they no longer think to look within.

The positives from learning about mind control far outweigh the negatives," Mark agreed. "Good people have a right to the information on mind brain function. Once they realize the truth, they can assume the healing.

Granddaddy's squirrel gun is not going to get it when faced with their computerized advancements, harmonics, ELF waves, biologicals, nuclear capacity and so on. Still, we better hang on to our weapons just because they are hell-bent on taking them away. They must feel threatened by them. Besides, being armed with truth and weapons is a powerful combination.

Customs Internal Affairs knew everything I knew about Thornburgh, Bush, Noriega, Jose Busto, Jimmy Buffet, the Caribbean branch of CIA drug ops, the arming of Nicaragua's Contras, and the destabilization of the Middle East through the arming of Afghanistan and Iraq. Mark and I knew we had strong support, and friends as dedicated as we are to dismantling the criminal corruption that was eroding the soul of America.

In order to express the reality of my past, I would have to reach a public whose point of reference was deliberately distorted through social engineering.

Alcoff calls this self-examination "white double-consciousness," which involves seeing "themselves through both the dominant and the nondominant lens, and recognizing the latter as a critical corrective truth.

For to be aware of history, they would be forced to be held accountable. And rather than face that shame, they'd rather, by any means necessary, maintain their innocence.

But because we know we won't be believed, we don't quite believe it ourselves.

Our feelings are overreactions because our lived experiences of structural inequity are not commensurate with their deluded reality.

Alcoff calls this self-examination "white double-consciousness," which involves seeing "themselves through both the dominant and the nondominant lens, and recognizing the latter as a critical corrective truth." But