Quotes About Truth

Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

God may work in a Mystery, but luckily for us, he's incapable of keeping a secret.

It is us he saves, not our lives. It is the person he dies for, not the suit of clothes in which the person hides from the bare truth about himself. He does not save you or me as we dress ourselves up at high noon on a good day; he saves us only as we stumble naked and uncombed from lumpy mattress to cold shower after a long, hard night - as, that is, we limp in faith from the bed of our death, through the blood of the cross, to the joy of his resurrection.

Les prétendues chambres à gaz hitlériennes et le prétendu génocide des Juifs forment un seul et même mensonge historique qui a permis une gigantesque escroquerie politico-financière, dont les principaux bénéficiaires sont l'État d'Israël et le sionisme international, et dont les principales victimes sont le peuple allemand — mais non pas ses dirigeants et le peuple palestinien tout entier.

The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie, which has permitted a gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the state of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people – but not their leaders – and the Palestinian people in their entirety.

To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

Todo este tiempo he creído que pensaba en profundidad, pero se trataba tan sólo de una ilusión.

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

Os he estado buscando –le dijo al mago–. He estado perdido durante meses. —Toda vuestra vida lo habéis estado –le corrigió Merlín, mordiendo una zanahoria y compartiéndola con el conejo más cercano. El caballero se enfureció. —No he venido hasta aquí para ser insultado. —Quizá siempre os habéis tomado la verdad como un insulto –dijo Merlín

Si sé que no tengo «algo», no tengo que poseerlo. Y si no poseo nada, puedo tenerlo «todo». Enseguida, otro pensamiento sacudió al Caballero: ?Saber que no poseo nada significa no tener nada que defender... y saber que no sé nada significa que no tengo que demostrar nada. ¿Estoy en lo cierto?

Hemos cerrado Al Watan por el reportaje sobre el presidente —me comunicó—. El redactor fue detenido por otra cosa… sí, está detenido.» Lo están interrogando. También hemos cerrado Al Istiqlal. Han estado implicados en un delito de desinformación.»

Journalism can be lethal

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

I am always looking outside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what's out there. And what's out there is constantly changing.

It is natural for us to avoid pain and conflict. So, seeking the truth is not something we do by nature. It is a discipline, and like every discipline, is not natural. As we build our life as art, one discipline we will need to master is fluency in reality. We need to know exactly how it is. We will need to raise our level of objectivity, discernment, and awareness.

You're searching, Joe, for things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...