Quotes About Truth

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information. In general, know when it's really important not to take people's words at 100 percent face value.

Because being wrong is just an opportunity to find more of the truth.

I'm not sure how much the formal study of philosophy matters, but I think the fundamental philosophical question is one that's important for all of us, and it's always this question of 'What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?

I promise, if you just tell the truth and get your heart broken as a comedian, you will have a house.

being able to view things as they are as opposed to what everybody says about them,

Si produces bastantes ideas malas, se te ocurrirán algunas buenas «La gente con dificultades para tener buenas ideas, si te cuenta la verdad, te dirá que tampoco tiene muchas ideas malas.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?' There's a consensus of things that people believe to be true. Maybe the conventions are right, and maybe they're not. And we never want to let a convention be a shortcut for truth. We always need to ask: Is this true? And this is always what I get at with this indirect question: 'Tell me something that's true that very few people agree with you on.

La realidad es una mera ilusión, aunque muy persistente.» ALBERT EINSTEIN

Todo lo comúnmente aceptado como cierto es falso.» OSCAR WILDE, La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information.

The Point of Journalism Is the Truth "The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is not to improve society. There are things, there are facts, there are truths that actually feel regressive, but it doesn't matter, because the point of journalism isn't to make everything better. It's to give people accurate information about how things are.

Truth is that which has predictive power.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

As for the myths, take anyone's life and deny that most of it is deliberate self-delusion - an aggrandizement - a mixture of lies and truth, of what was wanted and what was had, producing the necessary justification for having been granted life in the first place. I was struck like a match, Lily wrote. I had no option but to burn. You can put a period after that. Lily did. It was the story of her life.

Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men."

Let God be good," cried Erasmus the moralist. "Let God be God," replied Luther the theologian. Although

The underlying solution - repeated again and again - is to recognize that your brain is producing the visions. They do not exist. Nothing exists except as your consciousness gives it life.

Only when we learn experientially the truth that there is a "light that shines in the darkness" (John 1:5), and that to be "within" is above all to encounter the personal presence, the love and healing of our Savior, does this resistance begin to diminish.