Quotes About Truth

law of noncontradiction, the "law of causality," and "the basic reliability of sense perception," which, they contend, "no one denies … regularly and consistently,"22 and which, for them apparently, are more non-negotiably certain at the beginning of their quest for God and truth than God himself is.

While he values science he understands that apart from God there is no reliable basis for doing science.

And if we fail to recognize within the Scriptures our Master's voice speaking his infallible truth to us from his world to our world, we destroy ourselves not only epistemically but also personally, for we abandon the only foundation for the certainty of knowledge and the only "meaning base" by which we may truly know the One infinite, personal God and thereby ourselves as persons of dignity and worth.2

The name "water filter" is misleading. The word filtered literally means only that the water has passed through a medium containing tiny holes or fine passageways that screen out suspended particles. When

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

There wasn't any harm in these people; they were only average. Most of their bad thoughts came out of fear, and to tell the truth, that's what causes most of the troubles in the world.

You shouldn't play with fire in your own backyard." He smiled thinly. "Plus, there's a lot of apathy about Africa. Westerners like to say that's not true, but it is. Deception is easier when people don't care.

In Russia we have a proverb--it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Bright is the ring of wordsWhen the right man rings them.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

To be without silver is better than to be without honor.

Yet why not say what happened?

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.

the task of the ethnographer is not to determine "the truth" but to reveal the multiple truths apparent in others' lives.

A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?