Quotes About Truth

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

I believe framing reality is one of the only ways we can ever be sure it actually exists. In that regard, I feel as though I'm still learning who I am as an artist.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

Media is Munchausen by proxy.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.