Quotes About Truth

The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.

The answer is simpler than you think.

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either recognize reality or they do not.

Honesty: When your outer expression matches your inner belief. Truth: When your inner belief matches reality.

The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. "Because it's the right thing to do." Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. "Buddy, if we're gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other." The trooper stared at him for a long moment. "I need a pilot.

My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are.

Crazy thing is, it's all real. The Jedi, the Force—it's true. All true.

Facts can be most persuasive.

Unlike in simulations, reality bled.

Women always figure out the truth.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

The point is that if the knowledge that provides the categories we use to describe our observations is defective, the observation statements that presuppose those categories are similarly defective.

One attempt to avoid the problem of induction involves weakening the demand that scientific knowledge be proven true, and resting content with the claim that scientific claims can be shown to be probably true in the light of the evidence. So the vast number of observations that can be invoked to support the claim that materials denser than air fall diWInwards on earth, although it does not permit us to prove the truth of the claim, does warrant the assertion that the claim is probably true.

Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

it was disbelief in the universality of moral truth, and the failure to see that human beings are by nature capable of gaining access to moral truth, that created the intellectual perversions of pragmatism and positivism alike.

About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value"; but it was tragically wrong "in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."16

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A

Words. Empty words. Sometimes I hate words. Sometimes they fail human experience. Sometimes words are a way to avoid the truth.

n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" ("I have no need for that assumption

VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI. By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.

Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? The Comedian: It came true. You're lookin' at it.