Quotes About Truth

A glimpse of an eye is, for purposes of triggering the animate-monitoring system, a glimpse of the beast peering through that eye.

What we call 'reality,' consists of an elaborate papier-mâché construction of imagination and theory filled in between a few iron posts of observation."22 We

Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness.

We encounter a startling "Fitness-Beats-Truth" (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.

Arthur Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Why, Wally," he said. "Except for leaving out the part where Tom continues to be a homicidal maniac, it's all the truth.

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty

A lady doctor in the foreground, black horn-rims and white lab coat, suddenly cried, "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Do you realize what you're doing to the reality concepts we're trying to instill in these people? How do you expect them to differentiate between illusion and reality when you do something like this ?"

The Scriptures are called God's utterances or God's oracles (Rom 3:2).

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.

The world is once again in need of knights who are willing to fight for truth and peace. Only truth will bring about world peace.

The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth.

But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.

For only with your help shall They come to see–and with no more Than average daily terror– All things for what they are, All things for what they are.

the Bible does not present what the right human thoughts about God are. The Bible shows the right thoughts of God about humans.

What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.

Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.