Quotes About Truth

Faith, to his mind, was a willed asserting of the sacred. If it were made more or less than this then it was mere belief, as children will believe the goblin tale they hear for just so long as it is being told. To hold belief in a material fact was only vanity, easily shattered, where the ideal was a truth eternal in whatever form expressed.

In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.

I do this not because I am courageous and honest, but because it is the only way to end the conflict of my deepest soul.

Or you can make it easy on yourself," Skulduggery said. "You can tell us where Abyssinia is.

The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

The Bible is God's own Word. It is God's great gift to all people everywhere.

I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

Let's never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

Some people like to talk of intuition as a way of knowing truth; that gut reactions are as good as evidence based facts. Its a really silly way of thinking...

To see things as they really are, you must imagine them for what they might be.

I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.

In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It's not necessary that the lies be particularly believable, but merely that they be erected as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided.

It's never possible to know for certain the "true" source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection) and reality. The question quickly becomes, What is real? It is always possible to consciously or unconsciously "see" almost anything we want. I can look at the ceiling and see an image of the Virgin Mary, or I can look at the ceiling and see that the spackler did a damn good job.

Green cars could be made of pure refined nonsense and fueled by bright green hot air combined with the broken and destroyed dreams of every nonhuman on earth, and they'd still be destructive.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

I]t seems to be just as foolish to say, 'I imagine, in order to understand more clearly what I am,' as to say, 'I am now clearly awake and I see something true, but because I do not yet see it clearly enough I shall fall asleep so that my dreams will represent it to me more truly and clearly.

In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know

Broken Minds, The easiest way to program a foolish mind is to tell them something that they know nothing about and proceed to make them believe it without doing any research for themselves, "Broken Minds" -MillYentei

Brothers out here flexing their talk, setting themselves up for failures; just to prove a worthless point about what they are really doing in the streets. -MillYentei