Quotes About Truth

Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder's?

In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see.  Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.

I may not ever be able to be certain what is absolutely True... but I sure as heck can work to find out what isn't true!  Moreover, I can improve my model of the world, by slowly, carefully finding out what is truer than what I already know.

Dogmas don't have to be entirely logical, as long as they work.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

that explains everything and excuses nothing.

Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.

All knowledge systems, from modern science to those embedded in the most ancient of creation myths, can be thought of as maps of reality. They are never just true or false. Perfect descriptions of reality are unattainable, unnecessary, and too costly for learning organisms, including humans.

Jeffrey discovered that the truth was the opposite of what he'd always believed. He'd always tried to keep his weaknesses and vulnerabilities hidden because he thought they were so shameful. But in spite of all his wealth, power, and success, Jeffrey had never really gotten close to people or discovered any inner peace or happiness. In contrast, his human, vulnerable

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

But your feelings are not always a reliable guide to reality and

That illustrates my rule of thumb for reading history: View with suspicion any anecdote that makes a good enough story to have survived on its literary merits.

But if she is a good woman, a strong woman, she won't tolerate your childish needs for a pat on the head, collecting bigger toys, and being king of the mountain. A good woman will love the childlike part of you, but she wants your life to be guided by your deepest truths, not your untended childhood wounds. She wants to feel that at your core you have grown beyond the need for kudos and million-dollar toys. She wants to feel your self-generated strength of truth.

Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.

A free man is free to acknowledge his fears, without hiding them, or hiding from them. Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.

I am going to speak some reckless words, and I want you to listen recklessly.

If you are willing to feel exactly what is and open as you are, then your life unfolds as truth.

You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere.

However, when you know your true purpose, which is your core desire in life, each moment can become a full expression of your core desire. Every instant of career, every instant of intimacy, is filled with the power of your heart purpose. You are no longer just going through the motions at work and with your woman, but you are living the truth of your life, and giving the gifts of your love, moment by moment. Such a life is complete unto itself in every instant.

It's only a story, isn't it?... Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

There are things we know for certain. Oh? Name one. The sun's going to come up tomorrow morning. Why? It always has. Does that really mean that it always will? A faint look of consternation crossed her face. It will , won't it? Probably, but we can't be absolutely certain. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything, Pol. That's what education's all about.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.