The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
My nature is to try and look past apparent truths, to pull back layers and understand the psychological motives behind phenomena.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It's a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
