Quotes About Truth

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

Wide acceptance of a quote is not the proof of its validity

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

Napoleon once said, What is history, but a fable agreed upon? He smiled. By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon

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

Without Wax...

The Secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret has always been how to die.

When a question has no correct answer; there is only one honest response.

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

Find the truth. Act on it.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

Kohler shrugged. Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis ... Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

it is said that in death, all things become clear

Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado

Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.

Secrets," Kohler finally said, "are a luxury we can no longer afford.

Misunderstanding breeds distrust