Quotes About Truth

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information

The aim of these gatherings is to acquaint you with the factology of facts. One has to know whether one is dealing with the essential or the circumferential fact. Historical data, after all, tend to be not particularly factual and subject to revision by later researchers. You must look to start, therefore, with the fact that cannot be smashed into sub-particles of fact.

For it's exactly when we come closest to another, that we are turned away with a lie, and blunder forward to comprehend ourselves on the misperceptions of the past.

It is significant that the word "holiness" derives from a word meaning "wholeness" and the word "meditation," usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word "medication." The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

How can you see something that isn't there? yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,he said. For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones. Then where is Reality? barked Tock. Right here,cried Alec, waving his arms.

Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

as long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly. How do you see something that isn't there?... sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are...

And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.

I soon discovered the truth of an old saying: "When God wants to punish you, he grants your wishes.

For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so, For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

I)t's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

i dokle god je odgovor pravi, koga briga Å¡to je pitanje krivo?

Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star—and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace. Juster's allegorical monsters have become all too real. The Demons of Ignorance, the Gross Exaggeration (whose wicked teeth were made "only to mangle the truth"), and the shabby Threadbare Excuse are inside the walls of the Kingdom of Wisdom, while the Gorgons of Hate and Malice, the Overbearing Know-it-all, and most especially the Triple Demons of Compromise are already established in high office all over the world.

But Elsie thought she could find it. She had heard that policemen, when politely addressed, or thumbscrewed by an investigation committee, will give up information and addresses.

No pretendía ser un sabio, pero había bebido hasta emborracharse en el manantial de la sabiduría.

The simplest explanation is usually the right one

El amor no es eternidad; tampoco es el tiempo sucesivo...Es la percepción instantánea de todos los tiempos en uno solo, de todas las vidas en un instante. ¿Qué ve la pareja, en el espacio de un parpadeo? La identidad de la aparición y la desaparición, la verdad del cuerpo y del no-cuerpo, la visión de la presencia que se disuelve en un esplendor; vivacidad pura, latido del tiempo.

El amor es una pasión que todos o casi todos veneran pero que pocos, muy pocos viven realmente.

The unreality of the watched makes the watching real.