Quotes About Truth

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

He [Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question: "Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?" I replied: "I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth." "Well," he asked, "what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?" —ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE,

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!

As the case stands.

Our eyes are sentinels unto our judgements, And should give certain judgement what they see; But they are rash sometimes, and tell us wonders Of common things, which when our judgments find, They can then check the eyes, and call them blind.

Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Because here was what none of them wanted to admit, Leo thought, the thing they were simply too blind or angry or spoiled to realize: this life was the best it could possibly be.

Because certainty isn't the same as truth. It just means you're really, really deluded.

Objectivity of whatever kind is not the test of reality. It is just one way of understanding reality.

Consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies only on the resources of physical science. The existence of consciousness seems to imply that the physical description of the universe, in spite of its richness and explanatory power, is only part of the truth, and that the natural order is far less austere than it would be if physics and chemistry accounted for everything. If we take this problem seriously, and follow out its implications

If you can't prove that anything exists outside you own mind, is it all right to go on believing in the external world anyway?

The way the world is includes appearances, and there is no single point of view from which they can all be fully grasped!. An

There may or may not be an external world, and if there is it may or may not be completely different from how it seems to you—there's no way for you to tell. This view is called skepticism about the external world.

Impressions and appearances that do not correspond to reality must be contrasted with others that do correspond to reality, or else the contrast between appearance and reality is meaningless.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.