Quotes About Truth

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

An authentic relationship means telling the truth about how we feel — and that's the kind of relationship God wants with us.

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.

Someday, you know, we're going to be shown the great ledger of our recorded decisions-a dread concept you nonetheless know in your deepest soul is true.

Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.

If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.

Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.

Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back.

A person can't regret honesty any more than other unavoidables—a plain face or a poor history.

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

Serce ma swoje racje, o których nic nie wie rozum - Pascal

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

That is why we not only learn from literature but enjoy it: it delights as it teaches. And it conveys its kind of truth through the creation of concrete images which incarnate or embody ideas which would otherwise remain abstract and nebulous.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

Life is a four-letter word.

There is only what is.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Nothing lovable is eternal or sempiternal or deathless, or that the eternal is not lovable.

the complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.

The soul cannot be immortal if it is composed of many things unless the composition is most perfect. But the soul as we know it from our experience lacks that perfect harmony. In order to find the truth, one would have to recover by reasoning the original or true nature of the soul. This reasoning is not achieved in the Republic . That is to say, Socrates proves the immortality of the soul without having brought to light the nature of the soul.