Quotes About Truth

Although it is illegal in eighteen states, to ask employees to take the polygraph test, employers reportedly can find ways around those laws.

About half of the 4,700 McDonald's fast food outlets, for example, give a polygraph test for preemployment screening.7

Webster's Dictionary is correct that the polygraph is sometimes called the lie detector, but that is misleading. The polygraph doesn't detect lies per se. It would be a lot simpler if there were some direct sign unique to lying that is never a sign of anything else.

life lived in search of God is real life, the only life worth living.

Nowadays it is no longer a question of who is right, but who is at least not criminal

Don't kid yourself munster

To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.

You cannot experience joy in life by opposing the ideas or actions of other people. You can experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. And this truth never rejects others, but invites them in.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

When you're forced to be simple, you're forced to face the real problem. When you can't deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance

The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.

if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the "individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, which he is apart, suffers".

Wildness is not found but revealed.

the understanding is stimulated by the quest of ultimate truth; the will is stirred by basically known truth to choose what is truly good.

We must conclude that mankind came to a knowledge of these things through the medium of some primitive revelation.

We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.

In a democracy scientific institutions, research programmes, and suggestions must therefore be subjected to public control, there must be a separation of state and science just as there is a separation between state and religious institutions, and science should be taught as one view among many and not as the one and only road to truth and reality.

Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner -- love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.

Knowledge so conceived is not a series of selfconsistent theories that converges towards an ideal view; it is not a gradual approach to the truth.

Marx finished his destructive passage with an exhortation to history, to philosophy, to law, to politics to undertake the secular righteous "task" to "establish the truth of this world." What truth? That truth, alas, was Marx's "truth." Ye shall be as gods.

This book, then, tells a story of the fight for truth, justice, and the anti-zombie way. I don't know if that fight can ever be fully won, although it can be lost. But it's definitely a cause worth fighting for.

news media are either propaganda organs or desperately afraid of declaring, in any straightforward way, that politicians are wrong, no matter how much what they say is at odds with the truth.