Day: September 2, 2008

The Importance of Truth

“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”

Mohandas Gandhi
 

“Science is but an image of the truth.”
Francis Bacon

 

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

C. S. Lewis

 

Proverbs 23.23 
“Buy the truth and do not sell it;
       get wisdom, discipline and understanding.”

 

John 8.31-32 
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

 

“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell