Quotes About Truth

Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

It's a useful habit never to believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.

Alls I'm saying is cops can lie to you, but you can't lie to the cops. Which is why we often advise people not to say anything.

only those with something to hide ever answered question for question and tried to sound outraged to disguise their nervousness.

Art involves forgetfulness of immediate ends; complete surrender to the inward impulse to give form to the beautiful idea or image of truth because it is beautiful.

This legendary effort—which Navajos who live around Canyon de Chelly insist to this day is entirely true—allowed the three hundred refugees on Fortress Rock to outlast the siege and slip from Carson's long reach. They were never captured.

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

The Prophet supplicated that God, the Exalted, show him things in their reality, distinguished and clear: "Show me the truth as truth and give me the ability to follow it; and show me falsehood as falsehood and give me the ability to avoid it.

The Prophet said that the highest form of struggle (jih?d) is to speak the truth in the face of a tyrant.

S?d? A?mad Zarr?q said that the truth has the power to penetrate the hearts of people, including those whose hearts have a seal. Humanity has the right to have among us witnesses to the truth, those who are willing to defend the truth no matter how unpopular it may be.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it is not true because it is "my truth" (relativism). It is true because it is anchored in the person of Christ. Furthermore, truth is anything that corresponds to reality.

First, the fact that something cannot be seen does not presuppose that it doesn't exist. We know that black holes, electrons, the laws of logic, and the law of gravity exist despite the fact that we cannot see them.

tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5: 24).

Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.

The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chain by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. —THOMAS WATSON

Tylko literatura mo?e uprzytomni? ?wiatu jego nienormalno??. Nie historia... tylko literatura.

Przecie? nie piszemy historii. Piszemy o pami?taniu.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the "day of judgment."

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.