All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer’s thinking.”

“I didn’t see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality”

“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins’] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.”

“I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that’s within them: all the deceit, the dishonesty, the insincerity, the lack, the need, the want, the lies…they would rather look upon the mural of themselves that they’ve painted on the wall, and stare at that inanimate portrait of beauty, all the while telling themselves that it is the mirror image of them! This is a falsity, this is unreal! It is only when you turn to the unveiled mirror and bravely face your light and your darkness at once, that you will be able to see the true image of you! How can you pull the thorns from your skin if you are too afraid to open your eyes and look at them? You must open your eyes first, look at the thorns where they are piercing your flesh, and only then can you pull them out!”

“It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”

“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it’s that things don’t have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”

“There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.”

“It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been much abused. Intolerance and cruelty have occurred in the name of truth. To that extent people are afraid when someone says, “This is the truth”, or even “I have the truth”. We never have it, at best is has us. No one will dispute that one must be careful and cautious in claiming the truth. But simply to dismiss it as unattainable is really destructive.(…) We must have the courage to dare to say: Yes, man must seek the truth; he is capable of truth. It goes without saying that truth requires criteria for verification and falsification. It must always be accompanied by tolerance, also. But then truth also points out to us those constant values which have made mankind great. That is why the humility to recognize the truth and to accept it as a standard has to be relearned and practiced again. The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; this is the central theme of John’s Gospel: When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that he himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through his Passion and thereby also implements it.”

“Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.”

“Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)”

“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him.”

“Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.”

“But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, ‘The last truth is that there is no magic.”

“In simplicity there is truth.”

“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”