Quotes About Truth

to tell an emotional truth rather than an actual one.

The truth still remains the greatest service of love which men can show each other in the community of Christ." —NO RUSTY SWORDS

The true leader must always be able to disillusion." —NO RUSTY SWORDS

We must face up to the truth that the call of Christ does set up a barrier between man and his natural life. But this barrier is no surly contempt for life, no legalistic piety; it is the life which is life indeed, the gospel, the person of Jesus Christ." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

I hear you say: 'All that is not /fact/ : it is poetry'. Nonsense! Bad poetry is false, I grant; but nothing is truer than true poetry. And let me tell the scientific men that the artists are much finer and more accurate observers than they are, except of the special minutiae that the scientific man is looking for.

Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false ideas, reflected back at us by the media. The news is ceasing to be a window unto the world; it is becoming a mirror that allows us to gaze only upon our own beliefs.

The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.

We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences.

you were being strangled by the biggest, most inefficient, best entrenched bureaucratic system in the history of the world. You were in school, adrift within an education system that had lost any interest in the value of knowledge, or truth, or discipline, or self-evaluation. Like all monopolies, it was more interested in perpetuating and protecting its own territory than in anything else.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

Dear Friedrich, the world's still false, cruel and beautiful...

Filosóficamente no puede confiarse en los ojos.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

On September 26, 1789, members debated a resolution introduced by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina, charging journalists with having "misrepresented these debates in the most glaring deviations from truth," and with "throwing over the whole proceedings a thick veil of misrepresentation and error.

The only way I'm gonna trip over a bitch is if she lies on the floor.