Quotes of: Scientific-truth Keyword

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have a prima...

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not ...

La Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to re...

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed...

Short Shorts

Now (obviously) a sentence’s truth—even when we hold the sentence’s meaning fixed—depends on which world we are considering. “Brown is Prime Minister” is true in the actual world but, since Brown need not have been Prime Minister, there a...

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

There’s only one way to find peace with a painful past and that is through a personal relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ. He alone, through His Spirit, can place a healing balm on our deep wounds. The Bible says: “You can’t hea...

Under His Wings...healing truth for adoptees of all ages

One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but w...

Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball

Scott is gone. I've had two days with this truth. This truth and me, we're acquainted now, past the shock of our first unhappy meeting and into the uneasy-cohabitation stage. Its barbs are slightly duller than they were that first night, when even br...

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advanc...

Leo Tolstoy

Our poor human heart is flawed: it is like a cake without the frosting: the first two acts of the theatre without the climax. Even its design is marred for a small piece is missing out of the side. That is why it remains so unsatisfied: it wants life...

Fulton J. Sheen

So, let me get this straight-- You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a 'sin'? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted...

Cristina Marrero

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician ...

George MacDonald

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

The Castle in the Forest

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

Considerations on Representative Government

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

The Chill

Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete

A Crossing or the Drop`s History

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

A Clash of Kings

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Contact

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

Capitola's Peril

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

Crime and Punishment