Quotes About Truth

Al Hallaj overreached himself when he said "I am the truth" - ie "I am God." By this he meant, no doubt, that theologically God was in all of us and that he felt one with God: "You have manifested yourself so much that it seems to me that there is only You in me!" But the orthodox viewed statements like these as the deepest heresy. Al Hallaj was put on trial in Baghdad, and executed after horrific public tortures.

You can never really know that Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

You can never really know the Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello.

I know everything I know about.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed.

When a person reaches a certain age, there are many things he or she can feign: happiness is not one of them -- Jorge Luis Borges

Absolute scientific truth was like the speed of light, a value which could be approached but never reached.

French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): "The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain." I

After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.

Who is to say where you are?' Mirkady asked lightly. 'Some say there is a different world for every story ever told or untold, that there is no such thing as the here and now, only the unfolding of infinite possibilities, all of them real in some place or other.' 'In which case,' Dwarmo said, vastly amused, 'there is no such thing as a mistake.

Be true to yourself" - Ven Zallow

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Reporters rely on what people tell them. A woman claims she was the lover of a president. The story is accurate, because she said it, but where's the truth? A spokesman for the tobacco industry claims there's no proven link between smoking and lung cancer. Religious fanatics ignore all science and maintain that the Earth is only six thousand years old. So rule number one, the news is filled with accurate lies.

Philosophers and poets may be truth seekers. Lawyers only want to win.

True stories are full of holes. Life isn't a smooth freeway across a fruited plain. Life is a winding, pot-holed road, slick with oil, and studded with broken glass. It was one of Steve's laws. If a witness' testimony is too damn good, if there are no loose ends or contradictions, chances are his story is as phony as Donald Trump's hair.

A wise man states as true nothing he cannot prove

Man is never so foolish as when he fools himself.