Quotes About Truth

All truth must be built on the knowledge of God, or, as we shall see, there is no ground for knowledge at all.

El método bíblico para atraer a los pecadores a Cristo y a su iglesia no se encuentra en estrategias de mercadeo superficiales, sino mostrando la verdad, pureza y unidad (1 Corintios 14:23-25, Juan 13:35, 1 Pedro 3:1).

La iglesia ha pasado de ser la asamblea de los santos que adoran a Dios en Espíritu y en verdad, a ser una reunión social de cristianos nominales, que escuchan discursos motivacionales semanales acerca de cómo mantener una actitud positiva y cómo hacer lo correcto, esto les permite experimentar su mejor vida ahora.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

Americans so dearly love to be fooled. —Charles Baudelaire

other things, that "our

But my overriding goal all along has been a quest for truth—no matter where it may lie, and no matter what inherited dogmas may need to be abandoned in order to attain it.

I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either,

But there are times in the world where a stack of truth can be undone by one shining nugget of harder truth. I am not saying it makes sense to us outside those holding that nugget, only that when it's in your hand, you hold it and know it for what it is.

we cannot know what really happens, but only what we observe to happen.

Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.

You'll never solve your mysteries, Scharr. Not as long as we live in this. This world's a whore, all soaked in perfumes, and you're so easily seduced." He tapped his skull. "Break the eggshell. Time to fly.

a tale about America's first president not lying is itself apparently a lie.

although most people believe they can reliably discern when they are being lied to, the evidence suggests that they can't.

By calling BS on so much of what goes on, this book gives people a closer, more scientific look at many dimensions of leadership behavior. Most important, it encourages everyone to finally stop accepting sugar-laced but toxic potions as cures.

to change the world of work and leadership, we need to get beyond the half truths and self-serving stories that are so prominent today.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him?

I'm not talking about anything anywhere near what Christ experienced. That would be presumptuous and sacrilegious. But I believe that missionaries and investigators, to come to the truth, to come to salvation, to know something of this price that has been paid, will have to pay a token of that same price.

Trump did, in short, exactly what Mueller said he did. The two men—president and prosecutor—were like photo negatives of each other. Trump could not tell the truth, and Mueller could not tell a lie.

He concluded by addressing his father directly: "Dad, my sitting here today in the U.S. Capitol talking to our elected officials is proof that you made the right decision forty years ago to leave the Soviet Union, to come here to the United States of America in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth.

Still, for someone who lied as much as Trump did, he was a remarkably transparent figure. He never really pretended to be anything other than what he was—a narcissistic scoundrel. Yet he survived.

So?" Weissmann asked the agent when Manafort was gone. "That man is evil," the agent said.