Quotes About Truth

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

La verdad es veleidosa: no hay que buscarla con demasiada pasión, pues, con frecuencia se rinde, más bien a la indiferencia. Se escapa cuando parece que la hemos apresado, pero se entrega si se le espera con paciencia; se manifiesta ella misma después de habernos despedido de ella, pero es inexorable cuando se la ama con excesivo fervor.

proceeded to try to force his beliefs down nature's throat. Strange to say, sometimes he was right, importantly right as you will see. Up till now (it was in the late eighteen

Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest? "Exactly that," said Ferguson.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not "false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and nothing else, because it is false and misleading.

No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.

Believe me, Athelstan, you can wrap a dog's turd in a cloth of gold but it remains a dog's turd.

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

It would be masochistic and sadistic of me to tell the truth about something if I knew for sure that I would create only misery for myself and others. We've all heard of pathological liars. Telling the truth in such circumstances would be an example of being pathologically honest. We need to judge each behavior on its specific consequences for happiness and not on the basis of whether or not it accords to a generally good rule.

And you can trust your own experiences more than your beliefs.

A broken promise is not a lie.

Believing-a-lie mistakes occur because certain people just don't make mistakes when they lie. These are not just psychopaths but also natural liars, people who are using the Stanislavski technique, and those who by other means succeed in coming to believe their own lies. The lie catcher must remember that the absence of a sign of deceit is not evidence of truth.

Remember that the polygraph test is not a lie detector. It only detects emotional arousal.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

This distinction between believing-a-lie and disbelieving-the-truth is important because it forces attention to the twin dangers for the lie catcher. There is no way to avoid completely both mistakes; the choice only is between which one to risk more. The lie catcher must evaluate when it is preferable to risk being misled, and when it would be better to risk making a false accusation.

The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure. It is not uncommon to forget actions that one regrets, but if the forgetting truly has occurred, we should not consider that a lie. for there was no choice involved. Often it will not be possible to determine whether a memory failure has occurred or whether its invocation is itself a lie.

Not everyone is able to lie or is willing to do so.

Suspicious people should be terrible lie catchers, prone to disbelieving-the-truth