Quotes About Truth

Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oop!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel.

This could be the cause of all modern neurosis . . . [;] the fact that we have no immovable identity, no hard facts. That everything we know as foundational truth is subject to change.

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data," Delaney said.

We knew nothing; the gaps in our knowledge were random and annoying. They were potholes—they could be patched but they multiplied without pattern or remorse. And even if we knew something, had read something, were almost sure of something, we wouldn't ever know the truth, or come anywhere close to it. The truth had to be seen. Anything else was a story, entertaining but more embroidered fib than crude, shapeless fact.

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

But how many people will? How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking? The answer is few.

Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side.

The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait.

Los secretos son mentiras. Compartir es querer. La privacidad es un robo.

Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and this collection -- written with exquisite sensitivity and yet uncompromising -- will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come.

No one has a plan for anything. I guess that's the crushing thing, the thing that drives us all crazy. We all think there must be someone very smart at the controls, spending the money, making plans for our schools, parks, everything. But then it's guys like you, who are just guys like me. No one has a fucking clue.

It's the natural state of information to be free.

Subjectivity is just objectivity waiting for data

If we truly love others, we'll do all we can to rescue them from error. Nor is it loving to fail to point out where friends, acquaintances, or even enemies have gone astray.

Forgotten is the first duty of love: to speak the truth (Ephesians 4:15). Real love does not flatter or soothe when correction is needed but points out the error which is blinding and harming the loved one. Christ said, As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent (Revelation 3:19). Instead, the idea is now current that love excludes rebuke, ignores the truth, and seeks unity at any price. Only disaster can result.

I'd need to praise each of the columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, who've worked tirelessly to avoid facts that might contradict their narratives.

the media truly is a cabal of hyperpartisan, habitual liars who are destroying an entire industry from within.

Newsrooms are now filled with progressive activists who bend the truth, as opposed to old-school professionals who feel a duty to both themselves and their audience.

Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense—or at least the effort—to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists.

exactly why the media is so distrusted: An activist writes an arguably libelous article. Then one of the subjects of the article invites the author to discuss said article. The author then declines and is lauded by his own community as a righteous defender of truth.

As the old saying goes, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. But if you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

This knowledge is power and you should be empowered, especially when it comes to politicians who will say anything to get your vote.

Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be un seen.

Remember to serve the light side of the Force. Though you will never wield a lightsaber or heal the sick, you have some light within you. Be true to that light.