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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 1 : 1 - 4
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Titus 1:2
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Hebrews 6:18
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
PSALM 12 : 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.If you know me, you will know my Father also."
John 14: 6 - 7
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Matthew 24:35
The Truth Is Heavy, Therefore Few Care To Carry It.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and dust themselves off,
and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.
"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true."
How often do we say? We made a mistake when in truth we made a choice.
There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
In this world, those who seek the truth will also find trouble.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”
Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don’t believe it because it’s not the truth they want to hear.”
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
“The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most efforts to expose the lie.”
“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.”
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
“The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.”
“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his [or her] deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
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“Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.”
“Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.”
When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest!
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction; for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
