truth on Critical Thinking

For years Kyle and I [Jamin Goggin] had no trouble looking critically upon others in their quest for power. We bemoaned the rock-star pastors who were in the spotlight, whose churches appeared to be m...

“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

While sexual sin, financial scandals, and toxic work environments hurt pastoral credibility, a more subtle, and probably more common danger is carelessness with the truth. Intellectual integrity matte...

Pragmatism may be defined simply as the approach to reality that defines truth as “that which works.” The pragmatist is concerned about results, and the results determine the truth. The problem with t...

Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

Truth’ [is] what we think it is at any given moment of time.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.

Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Creeds must disagree: it is the whole fun of the thing. If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue h...

What we need to realize, however, is that there is no such thing as autonomous or “self-grounding” knowledge. All systems of interpretation and all claims to true knowledge are ultimately grounded out...

Becoming a teachable person has two prerequisites: There must be a teacher and a person willing to be taught. Increasingly, Western culture has become an environment that celebrates and platforms the ...

* This story is debated among Galileo scholars, though most would agree that the story conveys Galileo’s unique approach to learning. Galileo Galilei was a man who dared to look beyond what othe...

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

We arrive at the truth not by reason alone, but also by the heart.

Paradox has been defined as “Truth standing on her head to attract attention."

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way-but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.

When the movie The Da Vinci Code hit the theaters and the swirl of related controversy began to pick up speed, I decided finally to read the book so that I wouldn’t be found ignorant dinner parties. I...

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contempor...

In his book, Soul Keeping, pastor John Ortberg describes his mentorship by Dallas Willard early in his ministry. The following vignette occurred while Willard was teaching a philosphy course at the Un...

Holy Spirit, open our minds to the truth that hurts and the truth that heals. Open our hearts to the love that challenges and the love that embraces. Amen.

One of my favorite movies is Hoosiers (1986). It tells the story of a small-town basketball team from Hickory, Indiana, that finds greatness under the leadership of their coach, Norman Dale. The...

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth i...

Alltruths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.