Truth Quotes
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Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
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God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel which hitherto I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die.
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True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.
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Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.
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The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
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What I may attempt is to dispel the feeling that in using the eye of the body or the eye of the soul, and incorporating what is thereby revealed in our conception of reality, we are doing something irrational and disobeying the leading of truth which as scientists we are pledged to serve.
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Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
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I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.
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Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
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The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.
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Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
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My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Michelangelo, revealed me to myself, revealed to me the truth of forms. I went to Florence to find what I possessed in Paris and elsewhere, but it is he who taught me this.
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There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
