Quotes About Truth

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

In 1997 I said they were dicks for voting Labour – but nobody was having it at the time. Three years later people are saying – 'Oh, you were right there, Mark.' It's a waste of time, really, but I still do it. Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.

the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy

those who have never heard of "MJ-12" and those who "knew" that it was simply a very elaborate hoax.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

A man will not believe something that his livelihood depends on his not believing.

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Imagine someone in a skeleton costume. The costume is innocuous inasmuch as it is mere fantasy of dead bones over a living body of flesh. But, of course, there is a skeleton beneath that living body of flesh. Just as the skeleton is a costume over the flesh, the flesh is a costume over the skeleton. Flesh dies and reveals the skeleton, as if the skeleton is the death to come that is already inside the living flesh.

Scientific objectivity is one of our most deeply held, and crippling, illusions.

A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?

Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.

If you want to change your stereotypes, seek first-hand experience. Do not believe everything you are told. Find out for yourself. Talk

Maybe there's no such thing as the truth. Maybe it's all just a point of view,

you don't get laid or elected telling the truth.

Mark Gimenez

It's the 'big lie' theory: tell a big lie, and tell it often—and attack anyone who calls it a lie.

you're not going to find true love in the personals.

Perceiving is believing. Misperceiving is deceiving— And worse yet, prevents achieving.

You can't fix something until you admit it's broken.

It's hard to realize that you might be wrong when you think you're right—especially when your logic, analysis, emotions, experience, and preparation all point toward your conclusion. As Mark Twain said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. —MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL, ROMAN POET