Quotes About Truth

I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining.

When you make sense, you say what you believe and therefore mean what you say and therefore act in accordance with it and therefore you are who you seem to be.

At the movies — in the arts — conservative reality almost always comes disguised as fantasy whereas leftist fantasy comes disguised as reality!

You can not know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.

That was the trouble with searching for the truth. It wasn't always pleasant. It wasn't always something you wanted to find.

You cannot know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world. In

the very fact that the mind can be deceived implies that it can be not deceived, that it can know things rightly—deep things—beauty, truth—just as they are.

Now, to me, this was a very interesting story. It was a reminder that you should never let yourself get swept away by the crowd. Sometimes everyone you know can be saying something or believing something and it can just be dead wrong. All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the

she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

beyond all the obvious ways of testing the truth of Orthodox doctrine – conformity with the sacred Scriptures, with the witness of the Holy Fathers, with the creeds, with the dogmas proclaimed at the Œcumenical Councils of the Church – there is another, more immediate test: Does what we believe find its counterpart in the way we pray in the divine liturgy?

It had occurred to me lately that it was much more possible than I'd previously considered to be both 'self-aware' and fundamentally wrong about the nature of the self.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory. This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

As my hero Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.

They give you the chance to tell small lies so they can see how you handle the bigger ones. There's a reason lawyers tell you to shut up when a cop talks to you. If you're lucky, that's the first and last time a cop ever

They've met a thousand liars and heard a million lies. Yours ain't gonna fly. They won't tell you that you're full of crap—they'll keep you talking, getting you to lie about a bunch of things, making notes in their head while you tell yourself that you're the most persuasive motherfucker on the planet. They want you to walk away thinking you got away with it, or so panicked you screw up in front of them.

if nobody can contradict the story, then it's pseudoreal,

It doesn't change what happened. It simply reveals the truth that we're all weird. We're all messy in our own way.

It's a man's job to decide which of a woman's fictions to maintain..." Allan couldn't remember who said that, but it still rang true.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

I understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.