Quotes About Truth

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

Please do not blame the story. The story cannot help itself. We do not realize it at the time, but sometimes the story we are all a part of is not just a story about Vikings and islands and dragons. It is a story about growing up. And one of the things about growing up, one of the inescapable, inevitable laws, is that one day... One day... one day... It is going to happen. I am sorry, but it's true.

Love never dies, what is within is more important than what is without, the best is not always the most obvious, and once you've loved truly, Thor, then you know the way.

I'm sorry we lied to you, Mother. But the ends justify the means… A fine outcome excuses a bad method… You'll understand when you're older.

Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?

I didn't want to accept that in order to move forward, I had to walk through it. It was so much easier just to believe there was another path I could take around it and that at the end of that path would be the destination I wanted. It would be easier to want to end up at a lie, instead of the truth.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

Liz felt the loneliness of confiding something true in a person who didn't care.

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.

I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being adults, know absolute truths, or that absolute truths are even knowable.

She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.

I'm not going to say the rule doesn't exist, but it's like Santa Claus. It's only real if you believe in it.

She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one.

as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

It is not a camera, or a reporter, that makes something, real and genuine; more often, a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

we create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.

Oh come on—as if there's a clear distinction between real and fake for any of us. Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?

I find nothing in the Gospel of Thomas that contradicts any of Jesus's teachings in the canonical gospels. Rather, it rounds them out metaphysically and creates a newfound sense of awe as we see just how original and subtle his understanding really is. He is the first truly integral teacher to appear on this planet. As we take a fresh look at these teachings at once familiar and strange, we're catapulted forward again along a path that rings with the power of truth.

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom.

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).

It has been observed that none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.