Quotes About Truth

that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

It is not the antiquity of a tale that is an evidence of its truth; on the contrary, it is a symptom of its being fabulous; for the more ancient any history pretends to be, the more it has the resemblance of a fable.

Tanr?'n?n ne oldu?unu bilmek istiyor muyuz? Bunu herhangi bir insan?n yazabilece?i yaz?l? kitaplarda arama, ama Yarat?l??'?n imzas?nda ara.

Reader, whoever thou art, put thy trust in thy Creator, make use of the reason he endowed thee with, and cast from thee all such fables.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Credulity is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.

When it is revealed to me, I will believe it to be revelation; but it is not and cannot be incumbent upon me to believe it to be revelation before; neither is it proper that I should take the word of man as the word of God, and put man in the place of God.

There are stages in the business of serious life in which to assume is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind of mutual consent, to the impositions of each other.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.

There never yet was any truth or principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once.

There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must co-operate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced, have no right to persecute others on whom conviction operates more slowly.

they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing, it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy;

False testimony is always good against itself.

Necredinta nu consta in a crede sau in a nu crede, ci in faptul de a marturisi credinta in ceea ce nu crezi.

Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kayna??d?r; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiÅŸtir.

Peygamberlik profesyonel bir yalanc?l?kt?r. Neredeyse diÄŸer tüm vakalarda basit bir varsay?m?n bile insanlar?n safl??? sayesinde bir yalana dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü ve bu yalan?n da sonunda gerçek olarak anlat?ld???n? görmek zor deÄŸildir.

Fakat mutluluk için insan?n zihinsel olarak kendine sadakat göstermesi gereklidir. Ä°mans?zl?k sadece inanç veya inançs?zl?ktan ibaret deÄŸildir; inanmad??? ÅŸeye inanm?? gibi görünmeyi de kapsar.

Her türlü yanl??a kar?? en amans?z silah Ak?l'd?r.

Uydurma olmayan ve içinde özgün ilahiliÄŸin tüm kan?tlar?n? bar?nd?ran tek din saf ve basit deizmdir

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

Yalan söylemek kolayd?r ama devam ettirmek zordur.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.