Quotes About Truth

The Bible cannot be the primary source of knowledge and criterion of truth in all areas of importance.

Wherever the truth lies, in order to eliminate flicker, the rotating shutter within the projector has to allow each image to be flashed upon the screen twice. Thus, whenever we watch a movie, we spend half the time gazing at an optical illusion and the other half sitting in the dark in front of a blank screen.

God's definition of love is a love that keeps the commandments, not that breaks them.

For the first time my prayers were not for me but for everyone else, that all of those things in my notebooks, on all of those tapes, in all of those envelopes and bags in my room, that none of them were true, that the dead were alive and the lost were found, and that all of those lives could be lived anew.

Reckless talk costs lives.

We can't just erase the history we don't like, then there won't be any lessons to be learned.

Nothing is ever the way they say it is. Nothing is ever the way you want it to be.

Whatever people say you are, that is what you're not.

The Byline Boy at last, brining more death to the house of the dead.

We used to think that eggs were evil and margarine was magical, but now we know that eggs are among the world's most nutrient-dense foods and that margarine contains deadly trans fats.

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.

Truthfulness is overrated. The world works the way we want it to because of a thousand little innocent lies.

We are not free to do what we want with the Bible. It is sovereign. It must win. Always.

Second, it changes our use of the pulpit—the Word now supports our intoxicating plans and purposes, rather than those of God. This is inebriated preaching. Finally, it shifts our understanding of authority—the preacher's "fresh" and "spirit led" devotional reading becomes the determinative point of truth. I call this "inspired" preaching.

I had never dated someone who wanted to be with me all the time, like he did. He seemed to be attentive to everything about me, noticing what I liked and didn't like, buying me presents. His ambitious, fiery spirit was intoxicating. However, like a drunk person, I was blind to the truth.

Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and their manipulation— only to find ourselves manipulated by the symbols we take so seriously, objectified in our objectifications.

For Becker, this is literally true: Normality is our collective, protective madness, in which we repress the truth of the human condition, and those who have difficulty playing this game are the ones we call mentally ill.

is the basic problem the nature of this world itself, or our inability to accept it as it is? Or something else?

There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

Viradecthis is an obscure (possibly Germanic) goddess, the meaning of whose name is uncertain. The name may be derived from the words wiro meaning "truth" and dekos meaning "honour", giving a possible meaning of something like "She who honours truth". An inscription to her was found at Birrens set up by the Condrusi, a Germanic tribe serving in the Roman army.[605]

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.