Quotes About Truth

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

To create a pause between the stimulus and your reaction, add a truth to every defensive answer. For a healthy adult, the truth is the only defense and the best resource.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke of this encouraging possibility in his address at Harvard Divinity School in 1838: "We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Attention means bringing something or someone into focus so it is no longer blurred by the projections of your own ego; thus it requires genuine interest and curiosity about the mysterious and surprising truth that is you.

It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.

We all often think about what's easy to think about, rather than what's right to think about.

Once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake. —J. R. Ewing

To say we'll only have complete satisfaction in God strikes us as too simple, but the simplest answers reveal the profoundest truths. Until we find our peace in Him, we'll continue to feel alone, caught in midlife crisis and forever itching.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

Though we sing with the tongues of men and of angels, if we are not truly worshipping the living God, we are noisy gongs and clanging cymbals.

When in doubt, follow the truth. The path is often well-illuminated and it usually leads me in the right direction.

History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.

The truth is their enemy,

Knowledge was the most valuable of all treasures. No wonder

Occam's Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct one." He

As circus owner David Hannum famously said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' And, no, dear reader, it was not P.T Barnum who spoke these wise words.

no such thing as the truth. There are only shades of lies.

The rocks don't lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

The stress on observation and the reality principle—you can believe what you see, so long as you see what I see—paid off beyond understanding.

Until the truth about the apartment bombings is known, the true nature of Russia's postcommunist history cannot be established. At the same time, failing to react to the evidence that the bombings were a government-planned mass crime leaves such provocation as a standing temptation for government leaders. If those responsible are not identified and punished, it will be assumed by those fighting for power in Russia that provocations are a legitimate way to win elections.

The secret to life is: there is no secret.