Quotes About Truth

Collecting the facts is a revolutionary act. Insisting on the right to do so is perhaps the most subversive action possible

Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond. They

The words of truth are simple, and justice needs no subtle interpretations, for it has a fitness in itself; but the words of injustice, being rotten in themselves, require clever treatment.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

God mediates his revelation to human beings in such a way that he accommodates his self-revealing to human knowing and adapts human knowing to receive and apprehend what he reveals in ways that are appropriate to it.

Facts and truth go hand in hand, propaganda just makes people angry without knowing the truth. Propaganda is like blowing smoke in the face, it pisses you off, but then it's gone, facts linger and sooner or later you'll have to face them.

Politicians tell you what you want to hear, what fools you all are for believing the lies and becoming such sheep.

Thomas Frank

Anti-populism is always about the powerful lording it over the weak; the credentialed and the high-born reminding the world that the definitions of goodness and justice and truth are whatever they determine.

While its proponents might get the facts wrong, they get the subjective experience right.

Cheaters must get some credit before they can cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded in some truth, would not be fixed in any belief.

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

A person's conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost nothing but inaccurate information on a given subject almost inevitably develops an erroneous belief, a belief that can seem to be "an irresistible product" of the individual's (secondhand) experience.

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

Some truths hit harder than others.

Loretta's eyes flashed. "Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?" she asked. "Choosing to believe something, whether it's true or not?" "In one way or another, Loretta, isn't that what gets everyone through the night?" I asked.

Reality has a way of summoning the shadows," I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. "Is that the

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Truth bends abashed, and answers not.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.