truth on Discovery

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

* 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...

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

We are a couple of decades past the vastly popular initial run of the TV show The X-Files, but its themes continue to resonate. In the show, two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigate par...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

The following story is a great analogy to what life is like before we find we experience the eternal truth of the gospel. In Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfuss’s...

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.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

We remember the woman at the well – her questions, her truth, her witness. Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, so we too may ask deeply, reveal ourselves deeply, and share your Good News deeply. Pour o...

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

Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.

During the infamous Dreyfus trial in France, Jewish army officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason, sparking a national scandal marked by anti-Semitism and injustice. Among Dreyfus...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

If man tries to grasp at truth of himself, he tries to grasp at it a priori . But in that case he does not do what he has to do when the truth comes to him. He does not believe. If he did, he wou...

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people tod...

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and se...

As my AA, NA, and CA friends have repeatedly reminded me, rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery.

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

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

A friend of mine, lecturing in a theological college in Kenya, introduced his students to “The Quest for the Historical Jesus.” This, he said, was a movement of thought and scholarship that in its ear...