#truth

They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#life #truth #experience

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. ↗

— Edward Bond

#got #plausible #stage #truth

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. ↗

— John le Carre

#doing #dozen #eternal #good #nothing

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#doctrine #fundamental #gives #gospel #more

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#challenge #christianity #europeans #next #remind

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. ↗

— William Herschel

#confirming #contained #discoveries #high #human

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#free #free discussion #freedom #incompatible #life

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#among #certain #created #creator #endowed