Quotes About Truth

What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.

Who you are is always right.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Denis Lacorne

We do not commit to believing what the biblical writers believe; we commit to believing what the affirmations of the biblical text are.

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

La historia cotidiana de nuestro país está escrita así: todo lo que parece que es, no es. Todo lo que debería de ser, tampoco será. Lo que realmente está sucediendo es lo impensable, lo improbable, lo imposible.

The truth. I don't even know what that is anymore. Be patient. Pray about it, and listen to God. He'll help you figure it out.

Low tide exposed the good and the bad, she supposed.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

He hadn't lied with words, but sometimes the lie was the thing left unsaid.