Quotes About Truth

By the word genuine I mean biblical, for only in the Bible do we have truth that is indisputably reliable. For this reason, the Bible must be the guide and test for all of our experiences in the spiritual life, for biblical spirituality is the only genuine spirituality.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

The Word of God is forever settled in heaven. Therefore, I establish His Word upon this earth" (Psalms 119:89).

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Se tivesses acreditado na minha brincadeira de dizer verdades, teria ouvido verdades que teimo em dizer brincando. Muitas vezes falei como o palhaço, mas nunca desacreditei da seriedade da platéia que sorria.

That aura brought his works on Eurasianism massive popularity at a time when there was a hunger for dissident literature, and when any suppressed works automatically gained a reputation for authenticity and truth. He

Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

One of the truths about suicide is that it's hardly ever about the future. It's the past the suicide can't face, and although disgrace appears to be the exception, the one instance where suicide seems to be about the future, even in Oedipus, it's her past Jocasta can't accept, once it's come to light.

You don't really want to crash down the whole universe just to satisfy your situational unease or your incapacity to see the whole picture, do you? You don't want a life based on your failure to understand life, right?

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

One look, all is said. One word, all is lived. (Un regard, tout est dit. - Une parole, tout se vit.)