Quotes About Truth

Believe it or not, many Christians can make these statements with a straight face.

It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?

An idea does not need to be true in order to be believed, and the same could be asked about any other myth: Santa Claus, William Tell or Zeus.

orthodox claim of scriptural inerrancy and reliability.

That was the birth of religion, a shameful covering to hide our true human nature and pretend that we don't know what we know.

the bible is not a reliable source of truth.

Holy Scriptures

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else's truth.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Hardly. Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

The truth, however, was stranger still.