Quotes About Truth

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

The habit of knowledge is not human but devine.

It is better to conceal ignorance.

Meras creencias lo que el más acreditado conoce y custodia

Men verdooft zich met prietpraat en gebruikt ogen en oren niet.

Non troverai mai la verità se non sei disposto ad accettare anche quello che non ti aspetti.

What is not yet known those blinded by faith can never learn.

Though the logos is common, the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

What is not yet known those blinded by bad faith can never learn.

Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

The other great error in advertising is to expect more out of advertising than there is in it.

The world is an estranged and untrue world so long as man does not destroy its dead objectivity and recognize himself and his own life 'behind' the fixed form of things and laws. When he finally wins this self-consciousness, he is on his way not only to the truth of himself, but also of his world. And with the recognition goes the doing. He will try to put this truth into action, and make the world what it essentially is, namely, the fulfillment of man's self-consciousness.

The quantification of nature, which led to its explication in terms of mathematical structures, separated reality from all inherent ends and, consequently, separated the true from the good, science from ethics.

The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism. The acts required for continued self-preservation, including the enjoyment of benefits achieved by such acts, are the first requisites to universal welfare. Unless each duly cares for himself, his care for all others is ended by death; and if each thus dies, there remain no others to be cared for.

The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.