Quotes About Truth

When it is founded on decision, love is no longer an unreliably moving passion, but the fulfillment to which alone real Being reveals itself.

What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.

Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.

We were all journalists, professional truth-seekers, but one thing we knew about the truth that laymen were prone to disregard was that it need not be literal or factual; the unpredictable human personality was itself a fact.

truth from him, is a swan dive through a mirror into a whirlpool.

epistemological

Clark was bulging with lies when I saw him two weeks later. They danced out of his mouth as though they'd been cooped up there and were glad for a chance to stretch their legs.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

The government isn't real, he replied. He might have been talking about Santa Claus or God. I don't owe anything to anyone who in themselves are lies and liars.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the police and the government, public opinion, and even the history taught in schools. It was odd that such negative thoughts would invigorate me. But knowing the truth, no matter how bad it was, gave you some chance, a little bit of an edge.

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.

Il Diavolo è l'uomo più onesto a camminare su questa Terra, aveva detto Coydog. Ti offre il suo tesoro e ti prende l'anima. Lo chiamano il Principe dei Bugiardi, ma non è diverso da un barista: paghi il tuo bel nichelino e ti bevi il veleno che hai scelto.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

That was the hippie age, and truth was in movement and bodies and actions.

The landlord and I have a little dispute going." "What kind of dispute?" "I haven't paid rent in seven years and he thinks that it's about time that I did." "And you don't?" "The only truth in the bible is where it says that stuff about money and evil," he said and then he hurried out.

My experience has been that at its best, news reporting is an approximation of the slant on the truth that reporters, editors, and advertisers want the public to know.

You know love is true when it survives the devastation it causes.

There is no true event only a series of occurrences open to interpretation. -Mosley-

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

O, the tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.