Quotes About Truth

I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I have not changed in this matter in the slightest. I hold these teachings in high esteem, and I believe in their truth.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.

Sustainability makes good business sense, and we're all on the same team at the end of the day. That's the truth about the human condition.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I'd held as absolute truth my entire life?

WHAT DOES SALMON HAVE TO DO with the Warriors?" I asked. Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salmon.

Santayana wrote, "The empiricist…thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than seeing." That

We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and nature, and complicity versus innocence. But the truth is, there is no complicity, there is no innocence; and there is no death, there is only life.

It is one thing to be sure of yourself. It is another to have someone tell you to quit dancing, look them in the eye, and tell them the truth even if it hurts your pride.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

ACTION PLAN 1. Monitor your tone of voice. 2. State your positive intent. 3. Tactfully interrupt interruptions. 4. Tell your truth. 5. Be ready to listen.

Use "I" language. "From my point of view" and "The way I see it" are softening phrases that take the fight out of your words. They tell your difficult people that what you're expressing is your truth, rather than claiming to be the truth. This

We only know a fraction of our true history based upon some of the facts that we were able to piece together. But the more pieces we discover, the better our understanding of what really happened. History is always being rewritten as more facts present themselves.

Truth without grace is what the enemy brings when he comes as an 'angel of light.

The pure truth, spoken in pure love, will always attract