Quotes About Truth

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

Whether you believe you're suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or that 9/11 was an inside job, the World Wide Web exists to tell you you're right. You are always right.

In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.

In the absence of facts, he thinks, we tell ourselves stories.

Since when does how a thing looks matter more than what it is?

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

What I believe is irrelevant. In the last year, belief in Bigfoot rose from eleven percent to twenty-five percent. Here's another figure: thirty percent of Americans believe that aliens have visited Earth in the not-too-distant past.

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

A good basic guideline for our speech (in relation to Ethical Conduct) is to reflect whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

A good basic guideline for our speech is to reflect on whether what we are saying is both true and useful. There may be times when we are honest in what we say, but our words are too brutal or harsh. And there may be other times when we are deliberately being kind with the words we choose, but what we are saying is not totally true.

Serving the truth comes down simply to living life from the place of positive intentions. It means doing the right thing even when everything and everyone in society is telling you to ignore, supress, or abandon the path of nonviolence, understanding and care.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite

John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people's faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.

This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. And just because you don't remember something doesn't mean you don't miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn't mean it's normal" -Ruby