Quotes About Truth

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

The world's thinking is morally confused because it is informed by the morally confused.

There were slave traders, Nazis, and Communists who were compassionate in their personal lives, but all of them told, and most of them believed, some great lie that enabled them to participate in a great evil. Black slavery was made possible in large measure by the lie that blacks were innately inferior to whites.

Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

But we pay a price for everyone's putting on a happy face—we start believing that life for everyone else is great. I wonder what effect

However, one big obstacle to truth-telling is that believers in causes, including good causes, that don't place truth as a central value, will be very tempted to lie on behalf of their cause.

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

Speak now! A full account! Attempt to hide nothing, or I will send fire to consume your testicles.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go on and tell Him what you really think.

We have become so brainwashed by the fast, usually bloodless, and always painless deaths shown continually by the movie and television production industry that our collective perceptions of the act of death are sanitized. Whether by gunshot or through illness, the actor just rolls over and that's the end. We want so much to believe that this is true that we don't question it.

Integrity is the courage to maintain your resolve despite pressure or temptation, and the conviction to hold on to the truth even when everyone disagrees with you.

You can always use intuition and observation to bring out the truth.

I believe that most of us have false beliefs about our own nature, and our identity over time, and that, when we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do.

Philosophers should not only interpret our beliefs; when they are false, they should change them.

This part of Kant's view is, I believe, a profound truth. We can be morally responsible in several other ways, or senses, but no one could ever be responsible, I believe, in any way that could make them deserve to suffer. Nor, I believe, does anyone deserve to be less happy.

Every word is true. It is filled with God's own power and authority.

The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The

How do I know the will of God? Where is the will of God revealed? The answer is in His Word. The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The

12.Someone has said, "Either God's Word will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God's Word.

I should like to keep these simple joys inviolate, not because they are innocent, but because they are true

Who is the man who can speak to the strong? Where is the fool who can talk to the wise? Men who are dead now have learnt this long, Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries.

God is not a diversion.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.