Quotes About Truth

Michael G. Santos

Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within.

When Nouri said that he wanted to be with God, Ibn Arwani said: "First you must learn who 'you' are. Then you must learn what it means to 'want.' What it means to 'be.' Then you must learn what 'God' is. Otherwise, it's just a game. A pretense.

Did she herself even believe in God anymore? Why argue over a phantom? They were two fools arguing over lies.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

We certainly wouldn't want scientists to base anything on science!

That's remarkable too, she thought; whenever we make a noble statement it sounds false in our ears.

Irreducibly metaphysical judgments as to the nature of being, form, time, space, matter, cause, truth, knowledge, explanation, wholes, parts, and the like are the starting point of science, not its conclusions.

You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

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To understand movie credibility, you must realize that movies are false on the surface but true underneath. Real life, on the other hand, is believable on the surface but unbelievable underneath

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

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The secret of life is sincerity and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

If moral reflection consists in seeking a fit between the judgments we make and the principles we affirm, how can such reflection lead us to justice, or moral truth?

Honesty is the best policy. It's also the most profitable.

A carefully crafted evasion pays homage to the duty of truth-telling in a way that an outright lie does not. Anyone who goes to the bother of concocting a misleading but technically true statement when a simple lie would do expresses, however obliquely, respect for the moral law.

Just because it`s in print doesn`t mean it`s the gospel.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.