Quotes About Truth

There is no evil. 30. There is no absence of life, substance, or intelligence anywhere. 31. Pain, sickness, poverty, old age, and death cannot master me, for they are not real. 32. There is nothing in all the universe for me to fear, for greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

The virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

The public… demands certainties…. But there are no certainties.

quoting Tolstoy: "I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Many

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

Heresy is the refusal to speak the truth or to live the truth in the light of the One who is the Truth.

When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.

the less you know the less lies you will tell

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

mind. So much for Herriot as a judge of character. I couldn't have been more wrong, but Paul had fought his secret battle with a courage which had deceived everybody.

I thought of the object lesson which I thought he had given me, but in fact it was a lesson of another kind and one which I have never forgotten; that there are countless people like Paul who are not what they seem.

Perception bestows blessing—as the stories sketched in this chapter attempt to demonstrate. Perception brings into being and maintains the being of whatever is perceived; and when perception sees in "the holiness of the Heart's affections," again as these stories say, things are revealed that prove the Truth of the Imagination.

The jewel has facets," said the Chinese, "and it is possible that many religions are moderately true.

I suppose the truth is that when it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.