Quotes About Truth

By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

You can never trust what you read.

The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

He held up a book then. "I'm going to read it to you for relax." "Does it have any sports in it?" "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles." "Sounds okay," I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

The function of science is to investigate truth. Science is colorless and impersonal. It

our faith has been dangerously weakened—watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.

Be strong in the faith of this truth, make it an article of your creed; with the same faith you believe that there is a God, believe also this God's almighty power is thy sure friend, and then improve it to thy best and advantage.

We shall never come at God's glory out of God's way.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed, if we will have it thrive, with no other milk than of its own mother. Therefore we are exhorted to 'desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow,' I Peter 2:2[33]; if this milk be but a little dashed with error, it is not so nutritive.

Doctrine. That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth. This

The gospel, what is it but God's heart in print?