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Quotes About Truth

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.
~ Duncan J. Watts
Isaiah Berlin argued, the kinds of descriptions that historians give of historical events wouldn't have made much sense to the people who actually participated in them.
~ Duncan J. Watts
I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.
~ Dunya Mikhail
Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Reader, if thou to credit what is here Art slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarce Believe, who saw it all as clear as clear.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
The pilgrims absolutely believed America had a God-given destiny, and our founding fathers did, as well. Throughout our history, America's presidents and leaders have reiterated this belief. John F. Kennedy referenced Matthew 5:14 and Winthrop's famous speech, as did Ronald Reagan and numerous other U.S. Presidents.4 Though modern day revision-ists try to rewrite and remove our history, the truth will always trump their lies.
~ Dutch Sheets
Don't lie to someone who believes in you.
~ Dwaine Mushimba
Matters not how you smile, fact is that you did.
~ Dwaine Mushimba
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
~ Dwight D Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
~ Dwight L. Moody
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
~ Joe Hill, Horns
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
~ Alice Miller
How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
~ Amy Tan
All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.
~ André Comte-Sponville
I never told a joke in my life.
~ Andy Kaufman
What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
~ Bob Marley
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.
~ Solomon
It's always better to be real.
~ Selena Gomez