Quotes About Truth

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.

You're telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?" Kohler shrugged. "Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

The truth only be glimpsed through the eye of the death.

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

A veces, nuestras mentes ven cosas que nuestros corazones desean. (Cardenal Mortati)

What truth do these people possess? What proof, damn it! A book of ancient fables? Promises of miracles to come?

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And

The blind see what they want to see.

Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.

I'm sure you despise me," she sobbed, looking up at him through tearful eyes. "Despise you?!" Langdon exclaimed. "I don't have the slightest idea who you are! All you've done is lie to me!" "I know," she said softly. "I'm sorry. I've been trying to do the right thing.

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

Truth," Solomon said, addressing the room. "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.

unveiling the truth is never easy. Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are the laws of nature and balance. And if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.

The Apocalypse is literally a reveal-ation. The Book of Reveal-ation in the Bible predicts an unveiling of great truth and unimaginable wisdom. The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it. The prophecy of the Apocalypse is just one of the Bible's beautiful messages that has been distorted.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Edmond found it deeply distressing," Winston continued, "that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name. He believed that the universal truths of science could unite people—serving as a rallying point for future generations.

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.

Even the iconoclastic poet William Blake hinted that we should read between the lines." Langdon was familiar with the verse: BOTH READ THE BIBLE DAY AND NIGHT, BUT THOU READ BLACK WHERE I READ WHITE.

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN CREATED GOD.

Norah declared.

But faith by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that unseeable and indefinable, accepting something of which there exists no empirical evidence. And so, understandably, we all end up placing our faith in different things because if there is no universal truth. - Edmond Kirsch

The truth will be twisted, Langdon knew. As it always is with the Masons.

Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.