Quotes about Truth

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call atheists, and those who think they are facts are religious. Which group really gets the message?

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end… The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.