#rut

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#religion #truth #religion

If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose? ↗

— Tara Kelly

#respect

Kitu cha kwanza kufanya kama umeamua kuficha ukweli wape watu ukweli mwingine kulinda thamani ya utu wako. ↗

— Enock Maregesi

#truth #untruth #respect

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. ↗

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

#perspective #reality #truth #respect

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#truth #romantic

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#humility #science #skepticism #truth #science

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ↗

— Anonymous

#creation #god #science #scripture #truth

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#philosophy #truth #science

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ↗

— Evelyn Fox Keller

#truth #science

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #science