Quotes About Truth

Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say "I know", I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all' and 'To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.' 24

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!

There are no good answers to bad questions,

Whatever fills the heart eventually will be spoken, because the mouth is the faucet of the heart.

Satan wants to build strongholds in your mind that crowd out everything else, so that there is no room for God's Word to enter and prosper there. He wants his lies to so pervade your thoughts that they become things you meditate upon and accept as truth.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.

Ha muerto el Hijo de Dios: es absolutamente creíble, porque es absurdo; y también ha resucitado de la tumba: es cierto, porque es imposible.

O witness of the soul naturally Christian.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

It is certain because it is impossible

Certum est, quia impossible est.