Quotes About Truth

Instead of appealing to human authorities, institutions, and traditions, an apostolic church challenges people to encounter God for themselves, to search the Scriptures to find truth, and to follow God's ways instead of social expectations.

They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

Thus, reason tells us that it is rational to accept what reason alone cannot demonstrate.

Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

In order to help you remember that, here's a little ditty you can recite to yourself before you ease out the clutch: "He was right, dead right, as he sped along. But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

There are] lies of two varieties. There is the truly bad, "I know that what I am saying is untrue, but it suits my agenda to say it anyway" kind. There is the less bad, "I came upon information I liked or found persuasive, and repeated it before verifying it was true" kind. The latter is not about willful dishonesty, just carelessness. But since both varieties promulgate misinformation, both kinds are harmful.

as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie.

Freedom is at root a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal act of love, even as love properly understood is a natural, ultimately God-centered, personal order of truth. Freedom and truth are therefore united in what is at once an act and an order of love.

We live in an era when everyone wants to tell his or her story, but there is no real sense of what story means anymore.

replaced by a detail posted on a Web page, which may be more accurate but is probably less true. Gone is the friend you knew from home. Gone is the sled and the lake and the winter. Gone are the stories that existed in the gap between imagining and knowing and, with them, the distance that turned the particular into the universal and the mundane into the romantic.

first you find out the truth. then you take revenge.

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

Lies as a way of creating chaos and confusion. Lies as an alternative to violence.

Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

She spoke the truth or said nothing at all,

Thank you, dear doctor, for curing me of my delusions. But what do you have to offer me instead?

sabía demasiado bien hasta qué punto el odio y las mentiras distorsionan la realidad y destruyen a las personas,

The truth is of course a difficult discipline for us. Not only do we have to discover it. We've also got to handle it in the right way. It's enough to wear you down, isn't it?

If I've learned anything over the years, it's that the truth is generally a little unexpected, or even illogical, since we humans aren't entirely rational. Whereas lies, as a rule, tend to be consistent and comprehensive and often sound like a cliché - especially if the liars aren't very good.

I'm lying. He tasted the words. If it's true that I'm lying then I'm telling the truth…The

If a man says 'I am lying' we say that it follows that he is not lying, from which it follows that he is lying and so on. Well, so what? You can go on like that until you were black in the face. Why not? It doesn't matter." For Turing, it did matter—not in some abstract or ideal sense but because he believed that hidden contradictions could result in things "going wrong.

De pronto comprendió que todos aquellos meses en que se había mostrado tan «activa» eran tan sólo una mentira. Había que mentir para poder vivir aquella muerte lenta, o si no, uno se moría durante todo lo que le quedaba de vida.