Quotes About Truth

The bedrock theory I am referring to is the Theory of Reality, which states: Reality is neither the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.

Alas, the truth had to be acknowledged. If Ms. Best was "the best," I was the Dalai Lama. She was not the best; she was not good; she was not average; she was not even bad. She was, in point of fact, the worst secretary I had ever hired—a living, breathing, full-fledged incompetent, fit only for employment by a government agency.

Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demás de que uno tiene razón es algo que procede de la religión. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razón, aunque los demás no lo sepan.

Scientists aren't responsible for the facts that are in nature. It's their job to find the facts. There's no sin connected with it—no morals. If anyone should have a sense of sin, it's God. He put the facts there. —Percy Bridgman

That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it.

Interspersed within those meditations are reflections on issues important for both a spirituality of reconciliation and strategies of reconciliation: memory, healing, forgiveness, truth, and ministry.

false stories had six times the retweeting rate on Twitter as true stories. The researchers did not interpret that finding as specific to Twitter, and the result may be specific to the time of the study, a time when mistrust of conventional media sources was higher than usual. Rather, these authors interpreted their results as confirming that people are "more likely to share novel information." In other words, contagion reflects the urge to titillate and surprise others.

No single piece of evidence can "prove" the existence of any historical event.

Henry David Thoreau, whom Gandhi read, declared, "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." Havel, Gandhi, and Thoreau sought to live out humane truths that challenged the falsehoods imposed upon them by what they perceived as the malignant normality of their societies.

He summed up his admiration-tinged condemnation of the Communists in the simple statement: "They lie so truly.

In a society that rejects absolute truth, the only vice that cannot be tolerated is the sin of intolerance.

when Satan was training three apprentice devils. He asked the first one how he proposed to deceive people. "I will tell them there is no God." "That will never work," Satan replied, "for everyone knows there is a God." The second one volunteered that he would tell people there is no hell. "That won't work, either. Everyone knows there must be a hell." Then the third apprentice devil spoke up. "I will tell them there is no hurry.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Finding a lover is a false start. Fibrillations of the pitipat heart. The search for truth is a bum steer. It's much more likely we're looking for beer. What can I possibly rhyme with mud? Is "pod" close enough? Or "good"? It is the sentence that (sometimes) thinks. All the rest is twats and dinks.

Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.

It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.

Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.

That Light "enlightens every man that comes into the world, and . . . strives with the children of men, and will continue to strive with them, until it brings them to a knowledge of the truth and the possession of the greater light and testimony of the Holy Ghost."15

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

Our God is a language-using God; he has spoken literal truth to humankind.41 And if God created people for the purpose of fellowship with him, it is fair to assume that he would have created them with the capacity both to comprehend God's literal truth coming to them ab extra and in turn to respond verbally with no loss or distortion of the truth in the verbal interchange (this capacity surely being an aspect of humanity's image-bearing character).

God is the Source and Originator of language, and he created men and women in his own image in order that he and his image bearers might be able to speak literal truth to each other. And the Christian has good and ample reasons for believing that the Scriptures are a trustworthy record of a portion of that divine-human dialogue.