| Quotations about Truth |
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"Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence." --Soren Kirekegaard |
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"In the mountains of truth you
never climb in vain." |
| "The truth that makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear." --Herbert Agar A Time for Greatness |
| "Truth is a funny thing. Many want to be known as
followers of the truth, but that same many subconsciously hope to avoid
the consequences of catching it. To apprehend the truth is to be changed
into something we could never have imagined in the fog of our delusions.
It takes true abandonment to faith in the Spirit of Truth to finally
become conformed to His image. Having a vested interest in what the truth
is always leads you to bow before your own image as you peer into that
glass darkly. There is no substitute for taking up the cross that kills
all ambition and self seeking and following that One who said, "I AM the
Truth!" To fall short of this walk is to be forever caught in the lie." --Michael Clark Letter to a friend, June 2002 |
| "Just remember this, my girl. When you look up in
the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light."
--The Eagles |
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". . .the larger the crowd, the
more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable
that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal
truth."
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". . .in the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many." --Rene Descartes
Rules |
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"No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it -- dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant." -- Anatoli Granovsky,
I Was an NKVD Agent |
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"If you don't believe something is true, you won't believe something is right. If your epistemology is gone, your ethics will soon follow. If you have principles, then you have specifics; without principles you have nothing." -- Dr. Walter H. Johnson lecture to Epistemology class at
Seattle Pacific University, 1967 |
| "The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Little men are dissolved in it. If there
is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the
mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who
tries to destroy it. Truth survives." -- Adela Rogers St. Johns Final Verdict |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is
no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness
of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be
foolish than sensible." --Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals |
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"He who does not bellow the truth
when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and
forgers." |