Quotes About Truth

Aristotle maintains that there is only one reality: the world of particulars in which we live, the world men perceive by means of their physical senses.

Reality, declares Hegel, is inherently contradictory;

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn't do it. Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

The essential element of Christian truth is that the risen Christ is not something you mimic but someone you manifest.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

The US once held all its diverse components together on a declaration of "self-evident" truths about a government of/by/for the people. Today truth is not self-evident but self-constructed, fabricated from the moist finger in the winds of opinion research and social media.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?

To know the gospel . . . to really know the gospel . . . is to know him who is the good news.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.

Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware

Man discourseth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Priroda nikada ne krši svoje zakone.

So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.

No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

Wer wenig denkt, irrt viel.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.